On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:05:18AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > if fraunhofer restricts the widespread use of its codec, mp3 will die. ogg > > vorbis is the better alternative, and the only reason why it hasnt defeated > > mp3 is the awkward name. > > are you blind? the only reason it hasn't defeated mp3 is that the > overwhelming majority of all compressed music format music players do > not support it. do you have any idea how hard it is for a windows user > to play even an ogg file? its like a bizarre inverse of the situation on > some linux distros, where you can play oggs but not mp3's out of the > box, and fixing it means tracking down an obscure repository and > figuring out which of the many mp3-related packages you need. ugh, not > ogg. ... > the business phrase "barriers to entry" springs to mind here. like most > walls, it may eventually fade, but the one that mp3 has set up is a well > constructed, many-feet-of-reinforced-concrete-thick affair.
Thats true, thought there are only a handful of companies that make the chips that drive those cheap flash players, and they are starting to support ogg. Companies like Apple who have a genuine interest in not supporting ogg are likly to be more of a problem. - Steve
