[advocacy] OGG Vorbis support (fwd)

[Beni Cherniavsky]

Here is te mail I sent to Ahead software (that make the popular Nero
CD-burning software).  Is this a good kind of an email?  What other points
can be made in such an email?  (I liked the idea that "what I put on CD I
want to be free to read in the future").


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at crosswinds.net>
                 (also scben at t2,cben at tx in Technion)

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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 18:30:56 +0300 (EEST)
From: Beni Cherniavsky <cben at crosswinds.net>
To: suggestions at nero.com
Subject: OGG Vorbis support

Ogg Vorbis is an open, completely patent-free, audio compression format
that already works better (feature-wise and by quality-to-size ratio) than
MP3 and will do better yet.  I'm one of the many people that already use
it and never want to look back on e.g. MP3 encoders limited to 30 files.

So I would be interested in seeing support for Vorbis in Nero (I got Nero
with my CD-RW, upgraded to 5.5).  This would enable people to encode
Vorbis files and create CDs of such files as easily with Nero as they now
can with MP3 (if they order the unlimited version).  I don't want to burn
CDs reading whose content depends on the will of a company - but Ogg
Vorbis I will be always free to play with any software I want.  Hardware
players for CDs of Vorbis files should appear relatively soon.  The RC1
decoder that can play all files that will be encoded with version 1.0
of vorbis has already been released (end the RC1 encoder will follow
soon).

A plugin should be easy to write.  If you would publish the API for the
audio format plugins I could write one myself.  Libraries are availiable,
most under a permissive BSD-like license, some under GPL, that do all the
work.  And one is free to make his own implementation - than he is not
limited by any licenses at all.  You don't have to pay anyone royalities
for supporting Vorbis - on the contrary, it's encouraged.

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at crosswinds.net>
                 (also scben at t2,cben at tx in Technion)

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