Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-17 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Am Donnerstag, den 16.07.2009, 11:58 +0200 schrieb Arve Bersvendsen: On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:23:40 +0200, Nils Dagsson Moskopp nils-dagsson-mosk...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 15.07.2009, 19:16 -0500 schrieb Adam Shannon: It has been tried but Apple will not

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-16 Thread Arve Bersvendsen
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:23:40 +0200, Nils Dagsson Moskopp nils-dagsson-mosk...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 15.07.2009, 19:16 -0500 schrieb Adam Shannon: It has been tried but Apple will not implement it due to hardware limitations. As if. I somehow recall that a few

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-16 Thread Maik Merten
Arve Bersvendsen wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:23:40 +0200, Nils Dagsson Moskopp nils-dagsson-mosk...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 15.07.2009, 19:16 -0500 schrieb Adam Shannon: It has been tried but Apple will not implement it due to hardware limitations. As if. I

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-16 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Maik Mertenmaikmer...@googlemail.com wrote: An nice thing is that Rockbox provides CPU-consumption numbers for an interesting set of codecs on various hardware platforms: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CodecPerformanceComparison Apparently Vorbis

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-16 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: Note that hardware limitations isn't as simple as can play. For example a portable player device uses 90% CPU to play things certainly work, but possibly for an unacceptable short time before battery runs out. We're

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-16 Thread Maik Merten
Jonas Sicking wrote: Note that hardware limitations isn't as simple as can play. For example a portable player device uses 90% CPU to play things certainly work, but possibly for an unacceptable short time before battery runs out. That's correct. Thankfully all mentioned codecs are well

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-16 Thread Keryx Web
Yet another killer app that uses Vorbis: Spotify! 160kbps for the free service. 320 kbps for the premium one. Of course Apple and microsoft, both being hellbent upon using proprietary technologies and taking every single opportunity they have to leverage any monopoly they have attained[1] will

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-16 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/16 Keryx Web webmas...@keryx.se: Of course Apple and microsoft, both being hellbent upon using proprietary technologies and taking every single opportunity they have to leverage any monopoly they have attained[1] will object to Vorbis. Now, now. Let's assume good faith. I will assume

[whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Remco
A few years ago, Vorbis as a baseline codec for audio was dismissed, because it was expected that the audio codec agreed upon to be used with video would also be used with audio. Now that agreement on a codec for video is out of the question, Vorbis can again be considered as a baseline codec for

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Adam Shannon
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: A few years ago, Vorbis as a baseline codec for audio was dismissed, because it was expected that the audio codec agreed upon to be used with video would also be used with audio. Now that agreement on a codec for video is out of

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Remco wrote: A few years ago, Vorbis as a baseline codec for audio was dismissed, because it was expected that the audio codec agreed upon to be used with video would also be used with audio. Now that agreement on a codec for video is out of the question, Vorbis can

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/16 Adam Shannon ashannon1...@gmail.com: It has been tried but Apple will not implement it due to hardware limitations. Hardware limitations or patent limitations? Either seems ill-matched to evidence-based reasoning. What was Apple's issue with Vorbis audio? I'd like to hear from

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Remco
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Adam Shannonashannon1...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: A few years ago, Vorbis as a baseline codec for audio was dismissed, because it was expected that the audio codec agreed upon to be used with video

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Remco wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: Given the problem we had with the video codec, I would like to request that those of you interested in getting a standard audio codec do so by directly working with the browser vendors to

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread イアンフェッティ
Vorbis is the best lossy audio codec - Do you have data to back up this assertion? I am not an expert here, I had the naïve assumption that AAC was better given that major devices (e.g. iPod) use this format over Vorbis. I would love to see some data (other than some studies from 2005 on some

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Adam Shannonashannon1...@gmail.com wrote: This was from an email that Ian posted, I do not know if it is directly from Apple.  I am just posting it as reference, you will have to ask Ian to the source/creditability of the statement. Apple refuses to implement

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Remco
2009/7/16 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) ife...@google.com: Vorbis is the best lossy audio codec - Do you have data to back up this assertion? I am not an expert here, I had the naïve assumption that AAC was better given that major devices (e.g. iPod) use this format over Vorbis. I would love to see

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Double
2009/7/16 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) ife...@google.com: Widely adopted ... in portable media players? Really? iPod? Zune? Almost every media player I've purchased from the local electronics store here in NZ has Vorbis support. Many of them even support Flac. The notable exception is Apple products.

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/16 Remco remc...@gmail.com: Cowon/iAudio, iRiver, LG, Samsung, SanDisk, Creative, Google. Those are a few of the companies that support Vorbis: http://wiki.xiph.org/PortablePlayers Also everything using the Actions S1 MP3 chipset - almost *all* Chinese MP3/MP4 players. Basically,

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Am Mittwoch, den 15.07.2009, 19:16 -0500 schrieb Adam Shannon: It has been tried but Apple will not implement it due to hardware limitations. As if. I somehow recall that a few years ago, a Linux Distribution on Ipod did Vorbis (and Doom, incidentally - that was the original reason for me to