On Sunday 25 February 2007, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
On Saturday 24 February 2007 16:07, John Andersen wrote:
ecause ogg is merely an encapsulation mechanism, implementers still have to support a multitude of codecs in order to be able to decode what might be hidden inside. Including mp3 formats.
You should get in the habit of being a little more precise in what you wish for, Such as Ogg/Vorbis or Ogg/Speex.
C'mon, what is meant is obvious. Who in the world would suggest Ogg/mp3 as a way to avoid patents???
Out of 100 people referring to "ogg," how many meant ogg as a container for mp3???? Ordinarily my answer would be zero. Today, I guess the answer is one, apparently: you.
The point is that ogg is not a format. It is a container. And without knowing explicitly what is contained there is no way to know what patents may be infringed. Courts will not take such a fine view. They will merely rule that ogg violates the mp3 patents the first time the RIAA finds an mp3 inside of an ogg file. That will be enough to scare off adoption of ogg by any hardware manufacturers who are not already licensed for mp3. Don't believe me? Then explain why the RIAA gets a cut from every stack of blank CDroms you buy. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org