[advocacy] Ogg and Quicktime

JerScanlon at aol.com JerScanlon
Wed Sep 19 17:27:33 PDT 2001



Eli:

Quicktime is Apple's.
And you know how they are about patents. (Ever seen a Mac clone?)
But, if OGG becomes as popular as it should (if it ends up comparable to MP4
etc.), they will gladly accept an open-source plug-in to allow quicktime to
play OGG.

Jer

In a message dated 9/19/01 4:54:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
elifarley at yahoo.com writes:

> Subj:  [advocacy] Ogg and Quicktime
>  Date:    9/19/01 4:54:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>  From:    elifarley at yahoo.com (Elifarley)
>  Sender:  owner-advocacy at xiph.org
>  Reply-to:    advocacy at xiph.org
>  To:  advocacy at xiph.org
>
>  What are the reasons to use Ogg as a media container to store Vorbis audio
>  instead of using Quicktime ? (I suppose the QT format can be used for free)
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Elifarley

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