[LAU] Postfish & Beaverphonic

[hollunder]

Excerpts from Jörn Nettingsmeier's message of 2010-02-16 21:22:48 +0100:
> On 02/16/2010 08:13 PM, Monty Montgomery wrote:
> 
> > Postfish was an app I simply decided I had no time to do justice.  I
> > never got as far as JACKifying it (at the time, JACK didn't seem to
> > want to run on any of my systems for more than about thirty seconds
> > without crashing) and it needs an automation interface to make it
> > useful as a monolithic effects bank.  JACKing it would be easy, but
> > between a few bugs in the 'analog' sections that I never got around to
> > fixing, the challenge of an automation interface, and taking on
> > another project that would require supporting a large userbase, I
> > decided it wasn't something I had time for.  I just use it myself and
> > never released it.
> >
> > A few of the Audacity old-timers still use it, but it's been
> > unmaintained for around six years.
> 
> funny. i've been following the xiph svn tree for a while, to get the 
> latest theora stuff, and judging from the name, i always thought 
> postfish was some arcane brainchild of conrad parker's :-D never 
> compiled it, though...
> 
> huge kudos for the theora development, btw. last time i used it was lac 
> 2009, and the quantum leap in quality and efficiency was really really 
> amazing. if only we could convince those industry dorks to make it a 
> mandatory part of html5...
> 
> (sticks a cardboard periscope on head, dances about and chants "i'm the 
> submarine patent threat")
> 
> 
> best,
> 
> jörn
> 

And one can get you with any format :)

Most concerns seem to go into the quality and filesize direction, so if
it got a lot better the information should be spread somehow.

Regards