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[Rant] Vorbis Hardware PetitionANN.lu
Posted on 22-Mar-2002 10:44 GMT by Christian Kemp8 comments
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darklite quotes Benjamin Lebsanft: Our goal is it to convince hardware manufacturers to include ogg vorbis support in their products. Ogg Vorbis is a high quality audio codec which is patent free!. Sign the petition Ogg Vorbis is a fully Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorbis in the same competetive class as audio representations such as MPEG-4 (AAC), and similar to, but higher performance than MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3, MPEG-4 audio (TwinVQ), WMA and PAC.

Vorbis is the first of a planned family of Ogg multimedia coding formats being developed as part of Xiphophorus's Ogg multimedia project.

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Comment 1Christian Kemp22-Mar-2002 09:57 GMT
Comment 2redrumloa22-Mar-2002 10:08 GMT
Comment 3darklite22-Mar-2002 10:09 GMT
Vorbis Hardware Petition : Comment 4 of 8ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Hoggett on 22-Mar-2002 11:36 GMT
While there are OggVorbis players for most platforms, this is not the same as having the codec embedded into your hardware, so the petition has a valid point.
The only problem I see is that the companies producing rival codecs might start to invest money in making sure OggVorbis codecs are NOT used in the same soundcards their codecs are used in, which would not be a good thing.
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Comment 5Christophe Decanini22-Mar-2002 11:58 GMT
Comment 6Christian Kemp22-Mar-2002 12:01 GMT
Comment 7redrumloa22-Mar-2002 15:05 GMT
Comment 8Nathaniel Downes22-Mar-2002 15:23 GMT
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