Nice article giving Ogg Vorbis some press:
Vorbis News
Full Version: Ogg Vorbis Goes Mobile
I wonder why they link this old german vorbis site which hasn't seen updates for four years now...
Yepp, press is always nice. However, they are quoting dubios sources IMO:
"Geiz ist Geil" Saturn. Oh my. Horrible. (although his observation is quite realistic - Ogg Vorbis is not really successful in the portable-player market)
Latest News at Vorbissimo.de is from 2000.
Gaining speed is not really true IMO. I donīt expect Vorbis to take over the world
. Nonetheless Vorbis is a Good-Thing™ for many users:
Vorbis is good for OSS users - for obvious reasons itīs the only codec that comes with any linux installation.
Itīs great for small streaming stations - icecast is a wonderful streaming server and peercast has enormous potential.
Vorbis is very useful for application-embedded multimedia (e.g. games!).
Vorbis is not restricted to these markets of course. However, mainstream users will most likely use AAC and WMA. Peaceful coexistance.
Wrong. It needs *more* memory, not a special type or so.
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"Our first experiences with Ogg Vorbis do not lead us to believe that it will be a major player," says Bernhard Taubenberg, a spokesman for the electronics chain Saturn.
"Geiz ist Geil" Saturn. Oh my. Horrible. (although his observation is quite realistic - Ogg Vorbis is not really successful in the portable-player market)
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"Ogg Vorbis is gaining speed on the Internet, though," says Thomas Vehmeier from Cologne, who offers links on the topic on his Web site Vorbissimo.de.
Latest News at Vorbissimo.de is from 2000.
Gaining speed is not really true IMO. I donīt expect Vorbis to take over the world
. Nonetheless Vorbis is a Good-Thing™ for many users:Vorbis is good for OSS users - for obvious reasons itīs the only codec that comes with any linux installation.
Itīs great for small streaming stations - icecast is a wonderful streaming server and peercast has enormous potential.
Vorbis is very useful for application-embedded multimedia (e.g. games!).
Vorbis is not restricted to these markets of course. However, mainstream users will most likely use AAC and WMA. Peaceful coexistance.
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Unlike the MP3 and WMA codecs, Ogg Vorbis requires a certain type of memory in order to unpack the highly compressed audio information.
Wrong. It needs *more* memory, not a special type or so.
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Ogg Vorbis offers better sound quality than MP3 while requiring only half as much storage space for comparable results, they claim.
Such dubious claims aren't really helping our cause.
QUOTE(QuantumKnot @ Apr 13 2004, 11:42 PM)
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Ogg Vorbis offers better sound quality than MP3 while requiring only half as much storage space for comparable results, they claim.
Such dubious claims aren't really helping our cause.
Exactly.
BTW: new fancy-xiph-fish avatar?
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QUOTE(rjamorim @ Apr 15 2004, 02:08 AM)
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I think it's great that projects such as Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin, and of course Ogg Vorbis, have cute mascots.
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