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Josh:
proprietary? How so? Ogg would require users to install a 3rd party codec when you can play mp3's out of the box in just about any media player on the market.
mouser:
i could make an ogg version available in ADDITION to the mp3 version if desired.
Wordzilla:
proprietary? How so?
-Josh (July 12, 2006, 07:42 AM)
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yes, MP3's always been proprietary. :)
From Wikipedia
Thomson Consumer Electronics controls licensing of the MPEG-1/2 Layer 3 patents in countries that recognize software patents, including the United States and Japan, but not EU countries. Thomson has been actively enforcing these patents. Thomson has been granted software patents in EU countries and by the European Patent Office [1], but it is unclear whether or not they would be enforced by courts there. See Software patents under the European Patent Convention.
For current information about Thomson's patent portfolio and licensing terms and fees see their website mp3licensing.com.
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Ogg would require users to install a 3rd party codec when you can play mp3's out of the box in just about any media player on the market-Josh (July 12, 2006, 07:42 AM)
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There are many free OGG players out on the web and also, OGG is natively supported by many well-known music players. ;)
Check these links out:
Mobile players known to support Ogg Vorbis
http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers
3rd Party Software known to support Ogg
http://www.vorbis.com/software/
Just for your information, Ogg is the official audio/video container format for Wikipedia, Wikinews et al.
Yeah it's true that MP3s are ubiquitous and you can play it out of the box, however it's still proprietary. And it's not good. :)
Carol Haynes:
Trouble is a lot of podcast client software (such as iTunes) only support MP3.
Josh:
Another good point Carol. I would be in support of adding an ADDITIONAL stream in ogg, but moving it strictly to ogg would alienate alot of users who might not know about ogg, or might not want to use ogg. MP3 is the mainstream format, and is supported by every player, proprietary or not, and it works well.
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