[Gllug] [Fwd: [piksel] Outrageous disaster: Ogg/Vorbis spec taken out of HTML-5]

[Caroline Ford]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 23:00 +0000, Nix wrote:
> On 18 Dec 2007, Richard Huxton verbalised:
> > The problem is that you and I can see the value in free codecs, but if 
> > you round down to the nearest 1% then there are *no* users of 
> > Ogg/Vorbis.
> 
> There are no users of Ogg Theora, and no technical advantages of it over
> other formats. (It's bad enough that I can't imagine transcoding any of
> my existing videos into it.)
> 
> There are plenty of users of Ogg Vorbis, and it has a number of pretty
> major technical advantages over MP3. (All my CDs are encoded in Ogg
> format: upon switching from MP3 all I noticed was a little extra battery
> life on my portable media player, a little less CPU consumption, free-form
> tagging, and audibly better quality. From my POV there were *no* downsides.)

We use ogg theora in wikipedia as our video codec, and ogg vorbis as our
audio codec. Admittedly we don't have a lot of video on the site
currently - but that is more to do with a lack of useful video than
anything else.

Caroline 

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