[vorbis-dev] Opportunity for Ogg/Vorbis in hardware...

[Brian Zisk]

Thanks for this and any other tips.

I just spoke with Steve Vasquez, Audiorequest's CEO, and they will be 
building Vorbis into a future release of their product. :-)

They're a really good bunch of people...

Brian Zisk

http://www.futureofmusic.org

>Guys... I'm not subscribed to the list, but I've been reading your
>archives for about a year, watched the progress, the push to Beta 1,
>and been, frankly, in awe of some of the hard topics all of the
>extremely intelligent people who have been tackling.  (I'm not too up
>on my fractal compression and using splines to track pixel motion in a
>stream.)
>
>Ok, that said, I was speaking with the people at ReQuest Multimedia
>(http://www.request.com) about their product, the AudioReQuest Jukebox.
>  Right now, they only support MP3.  I noticed on their webpage they can
>upgrade the unit via software to support more codecs in hardware.  The
>rep said they had an update to support wma audio in the works.  I asked
>if they had any other updates planned.  She told me that they were
>limited by the cost of licensing the codecs.  I naturally suggested
>Ogg/Vorbis, and pointed her to www.vorbis.com.  I mentioned the Free
>(Beer) nature of Ogg/Vorbis, and she replied with "For users, that is
>usually the case, but we, a manufacturer, must pay licensing fees to
>use/sell the encoders."  I informed her that I was aware of the
>difference, and that the company would face NO licensing fees.
>
>Monty, is there any way someone from xiph could contact this company
>and maybe give them a (pseudo)corporate nudge?  This product is
>advertised on thinkgeek.com, which is advertised on slashdot regularly.
>  The only thing holding me back from purchasing this unit is that it
>does NOT support Ogg/Vorbis.
>
>I think that's all I had to say.  Your work here is phenomenal, I use
>ogg everyday... :)
>
>Thank You,
>
>Nathan Anderson
>
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Brian Zisk

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