On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Niels Gorisse wrote:
> So wouldn't that be a good task for SAOG to take these things over? To
> - point people to MPEG-4 SA, or: 'keep the spirit high'
I think this might be the most essential purpose of SAOG: SAOL has little
future without tools and companies supporting & promoting the standard.
> - keep saolc alive (perhaps make it realtime),
It should be improved probably, but i think it should remain a clear-to-
understand example. What I mean is, it should not be optimized and altered
to make it faster if this implies code which is difficult to understand.
It's the design & idea that matters here. There are other tools (like
sfront) which will become fast.
> - provide suggestions for standard extensions, like plugin-formats etc?
This is a good idea.
One other idea: SAOG should provide some conceptual (design) guidance to
development in progress. I'm facing a lot of challenges in my project
for the moment, and it would be nice to have a big community of developers
supporting the design -- Don't misunderstand me: I appreciate the efforts
of this community enormously, but whatever I can get extra is welcome :)
Regards,
Bert.
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Bert Schiettecatte (1e lic. Inf)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
E-Mail: bschiett@vub.ac.be
WWW: http://wendy.vub.ac.be/~bschiett/
-- To be a popular composer, what is it you must do?
Perhaps to learn enough tricks that cause people to
have pleasant sensations without too much stress.
What are the tricks for making that catches on in
a listener's mind, and keeps repeating long after
the performance? -- M. Minsky
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