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Voxware Codecs and Tags 10 Aug 2013 | 07:36 pm
If you look at the registry of WAV formats you can see this: 0x0069 WAVE_FORMAT_VOXWARE_BYTE_ALIGNED Voxware, Inc. 0x0070 WAVE_FORMAT_VOXWARE_AC8 Voxware, Inc. 0x0071 WAVE_FORMAT_VOXWARE_AC10 ...
A Quest Continues 28 Jun 2013 | 11:31 pm
Well, after some distraction as writing semi-working On2 AVC decoder (it turned out that On2 has introduced some special modes there that differ only on signal reconstruction stage, too lazy to RE the...
How I imagine a perfect computer (for me) 8 Jun 2013 | 08:24 pm
Of course this interests nobody but I wanted to rant about it for a long time. General principles: Compact size — I like to be able to fit all of my computers on the desk, any size comparable with pow...
Some Information about VoxWare MetaSound 5 Jun 2013 | 10:26 am
So I’ve looked at the beast again. It seems to be close enough to the original TwinVQ (as in .VQF, not something that got into MPEG-4 Part 3 Subpart 4 Variation 3), so I’ll just try to document spotte...
A New Month, Some New Goals 1 Jun 2013 | 02:45 pm
As suggested by Anton, it’s the month of overengineered codecs. The goals are the following (warning: they are subject to change without any notice) work on REing VoxWare MetaSound (the thing aforemen...
Sheer Madness 22 May 2013 | 11:08 pm
(luckily there’s not much left of this month of intermediate codecs) So I’ve looked at another intermediate codec, post title hints on both its name and design. Coding scheme is rather simple: you cod...
ProRes alpha support is almost there 17 May 2013 | 10:56 pm
I’ve finally brought myself into looking at alpha plane decoding support for ProRes. It was a bit peculiar but rather easy to reverse engineer. Now I only need to update my ConsumerRes decoder to supp...
A Well-designed Intermediate Codec 12 May 2013 | 09:23 pm
The adjective is referring to the hype that the company that made this codec is run by designers (unlike some other companies where even design is made by developers or — even worse — marketers). And ...
In ten years every codec becomes Op^H^HJPEG 11 May 2013 | 12:43 pm
So, RAD has announced Bink 2. While there are no known samples or encoder, decoder is present in RAD game tools already. For some random reason (what I have to do with Bink anyway?) I decided to look ...
Final Words on Canopus HQ, HQA and HQX 9 May 2013 | 11:26 am
Astrologers proclaim month of intermediate codecs. Number of blog posts about intermediate codecs doubles! (from zero) Let’s look at Canopus codecs and their development. Canopus Lossless This is very...
