On 2/13/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I also note that its been published in the free software, open standard, cross platform ogg vorbis format as well as MP3, and hope this demonstrates that such formats do indeed exist - As I said in the show, I think that everything the BBC is publishing as MP3 can also be made available as OGG :-)
Yes, it can be. However, nobody's interested. My employer has been making an Ogg Vorbis stream available for years (indeed, if you visit www.virginradio.co.uk/listen from any Linux box, it's the default choice). Currently, less than 0.01% of our online listeners use it. It's possible for all our podcasts to be produced in Ogg Vorbis automatically, too. Indeed, all our on-demand audio is already encoded into Ogg Vorbis, for when it becomes a popular codec (and we're still waiting). Ultimately, no organisation can spend time servicing 0.01% of people without losing focus for the 99.99% of people. -- http://james.cridland.net/
