[advocacy] W3C SVG considering using Vorbis
Jose Ramirez
joseram at empirenet.com
Tue Jul 22 11:34:03 PDT 2003
Dave H wrote:
> Jose Ramirez wrote:
>
> <snip/>
>
>> "It is an open question what audio formats, if any, would be required
>> for conformance. For the image element, SVG mandates support of PNG,
>> JPEG and SVG formats and allows others. All three mandatory formats
>> may be implemented without royalty payments. Many common audio
>> formats, such as MP3, require payment of royalties. One option under
>> consideration is the Vorbis audio compression in the Ogg format.
>> Ogg/Vorbis audio files are believed to be implementable without
>> royalty payments. Another option is to say that there are no required
>> formats, and each implementation supports whatever format the
>> operating system provides. Clearly, this would lead to
>> non-interoperable, platform-dependent content."
>
>
> On a related note, I recently raised the issue of Ogg in relation to the
> W3C's XHTML 2.0 Working Drafts. See XHTML 2.0 issue 7358
> <http://hades.mn.aptest.com/cgi-bin/xhtml2-issues/Object?user=guest;selectid=7358>.
>
>
> Basically the draft uses GIFs and MP3s in a lot of examples; I suggested
> that PNG, Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora might be better formats to use, as
> they are more in line with the W3C's patent policy. The present comment
> from the HTML Working Group is "I changed a few of the comments/examples
> but I did not change the mp3 references -- at least mp3 is a well known
> format." :o(
>
> (If anyone wants to raise this with the W3C, details of the two HTML
> mailing lists can be found here: <http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/#forums>)
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
There needs to be a new mindset on audio and video, and treat them just
like jpegs. Where you save your content in a safe format and years from
now it's still viable. I think the next phase of the Web, the multimedia
one, will need Vorbis and Theora, just like the first Web needed jpegs.
Jose Ramirez
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