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raceintospace / raceintospace

This is the GitHub home of Race Into Space, the computer version of the Liftoff! board game by Fritz Bronner. It was developed by Strategic Visions and published by Interplay as a disk-based game in 1993 and a CD-ROM in 1994. It was open-sourced in 2005 and a number of improvements have been made over the original.
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Re-evaluate Vorbis + Theora #5

Open willglynn opened 12 years ago

willglynn commented 12 years ago

Do we still want to use Vorbis and Theora?

Windows and Mac OS X provide a platform media subsystem with e.g. AAC and H.264 decoding built-in. We could access that without creating any licensing concerns. This would increase our platform-dependence but decrease our runtime baggage. Does this make more sense than shipping Ogg codecs? What do we do on Linux?

kiyote commented 12 years ago

For what it's worth, I found ogg/theora/vorbis to be absolutely no trouble to build with. I'm actually using them as static libraries...works just fine.

And believe me, I'm an idiot when it comes to this stuff so I don't think complexity of these dependencies is a problem.

willglynn commented 12 years ago

I think we should survey the available options. Going with platform-provided A/V is the alternative I laid out up top (and would be especially useful if we ever wanted to add an IOS or Emscripten target), but even within the space of free codecs, Opus and VP8 might be better choices these days.