Re: SAOL status?

From: Koen Dejonghe (koen_dejonghe@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 01 1998 - 12:18:11 EDT


Where and what is this ICMC ? Can anything be found on the web ? I
looked with Yahoo and all it came up with was:
International Christian Media Commission
International Cryogenic Materials Conference 1999
Idaho Consolidated Metals Corp
Not very enlightening I'm afraid...

---Eric Scheirer <eds@media.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Curtin, Steven D (Steven) wrote:
>
> > Eric, what is the status of the finalization of SAOL? I'd heard
that
> > October was the month that the spec would "freeze". What are the
important
> > dates after that? Hopefully once the spec is stable people will
start
> > developing the hardware and real-time engines needed for it to
propagate.
> > Thanks for all your work on SAOL. I'm hoping that it will start
to catch
> > on soon.
>
> There is an MPEG meeting Oct 11-16th. This is the last chance
> for anyone to make any changes to the specification. There
> will be an editing period after this to incorporate agreed-
> upon changes (typically 3 weeks for the text and 6 weeks for
> the software). At this point the specification is frozen
> and goes out to the various National Bodies (ANSI in the
> USA, for example) for voting.
>
> So indeed, the specification of SAOL and the rest of the MPEG-4
> Structured Audio tools (and MPEG-4 as a whole) is completely
> final by about the 1st of November, and the 'saolc' reference
> software soon after that.
>
> I'm giving a talk on SAOL at ICMC this weekend, by the way --
> hope to see some of you there.
>
> Best to all,
>
> -- Eric
>
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