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- Development information for 8hz-mp3.
-
- Mon Jun 1 11:59:06 MET DST 1998
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- Contents
- How to submit additions/alterations.
- What will we put on our site.
- Requested Features.
- Contributors so far.
-
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- -----------------------------------------How to submit additions/alterations.---
-
- To keep distribution of the encoder organized, we would like to make www.8hz.com
- the definate source of info and resoures.
- We will Make pages with links to your particular project if you email
- us the URL and a description of the work you are doing. People interested
- in helping you out can find you easily this way.
- Any platform/system dependend additions/alterations we would like to receive
- as '#ifdef-ed' parts in the code, to be able to compile the source easily for
- other systems.
-
- As diff files are difficult to use (everybody will probably start out with
- another source so changes are difficult to figure out if we only get the
- diff file...), so we'd like to receive emails with (complete) routines/files
- wich you've changed and a description thereof...
- Be especially thorough in your description of the result of your code, as we
- want to be able to understand quickly what you have added or changed.
-
-
- Our goal is to create a package that will compile on (almost) any system,
- so if anybody feels like creating a 'config' script thingy or a multi-platfrom
- makefile...
-
- As MS-Windows does not generally contain GCC or whatever, the 'configure'
- system will not work. There has to be some kind of 'standard' for the
- project there. We prefer MS-VC 4.x for the development. And as every available
- C compiler in Windows uses it's own configuration and project files it will
- be easiest if we settle on one system, to make development on that system
- straight forward. This goes for the encoder and for the frontend.
- The windows encoder is currently a 32bit console app because this will enable
- VC4.x to compile the latest encoder source with allmost no problems...
- If anyboy needs our VC project file or some advice for porting to Windows,
- please drop us a line.
-
- We envision the GUI's to be front-ends only, so please don't send us
- integrated GUI's, because we'd like to maintain platform-independency as much
- as is possible... The best way to facilitate this is to have a separate i
- (command line) encoder, wich isn't cluttered with system dependend GUI code.
- This goes for the Windows GUI also, because many people have expressed that
- they want to use a command line version.
-
-
- -----------------------------------------What will we put on our site-----------
-
- We'd like to maintain the source, if you'd like to port the encoder to a
- specific platform, please put the binary on your own site, due to space and
- bandwidth limitations we can't keep all binary versions on our site.
-
- We will put the following stuff on www.8hz.com/mp3 :
- - The latest version of the encoder source and sources for the GUI's.
- - Binary versions for linux(ix86), FreeBSD(ix86) and MS-Windows.
- - Links to *your* binaries for other platforms.
- - Links to *your* frontends, with descriptions you emailed us and probably a
- picture of the GUI.
- - A page dedicated to the development effort with any relevant information
- and tips/tricks *you* email us.
- Of course links will be to where you have the source/binary available,
- eg. your page, not just the binary itself.
- - Overviews of features added and changes made.
- - The comments/requests page will stay online to make it easy for users of
- the software to express their wishes.
- If you want to help out and do not know what to do, please keep an eye on
- that page.
- - We are busy in setting up a mailing list for the development of 8hz-mp3, so
- expect to find more information on our site.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------Requested Features.--------
-
- Because lots of people have written to us with requests, we will note them here.
- - Support other audioformats as input.
- - Reading from stdin and writing to stdout.
- - Improvement of sound quality.
- - More speed.
- - GUI's for all kinds of platforms.
- - Less small and large bugs :)
-
- -----------------------------------------Contributors so far--------------------
-
- First mutilation of the ISO sources and initiators of this project.
-
- alex@8hz.com (A.R. v. Ballegooy)
- goran@8hz.com (G. Dokic)
-
- This is the list of contributors the documentation with the original
- ISO sources gives. (These people know their stuff, Respect!)
-
- Bill Aspromonte Shaun Astarabadi R. Bittner Karlheinz Brandenburg
- W. Joseph Carter Jack Chang Mike Coleman Johnathan Devine
- Ernst Eberlein Dan Ellis Peter Farrett Jean-Georges Fritsch
- Vlad Fruchter Hendrik Fuchs Bernhard Grill Amit Gulati
- Munsi Haque Chuck Hsiao Toshiyuki Ishino Masahiro Iwadare
- Earl Jennings James Johnston Leon v.d. Kerkhof Don Lee
- Mike Li Yu-Tang Lin Soren Neilsen Simao F. Campos Neto
- Mark Paley Davis Pan Tan Ah Peng Kevin Peterson
- Juan Pineda Ernst F. Schroeder Peter Siebert Jens Spille
- Sam Stewart Al Tabayoyon Kathy Wang Franz-Otto Witte
- Douglas Wong
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