[vorbis-dev] Ogg doesn't measure up?!

[Manuel Lora]

Yes, which is a shame, because winamp is the most popular player out there, 
and the rest might be tempted to follow if they had decided to use Vorbis, 
thereby becoming leaders and not lame followers.

<p>ml

On Thursday 03 April 2003 08:56 pm, Stan Seibert wrote:
> Ah, functional and straightforward player support on major platforms
> would be a valid concern.  That whole arena is quite messy.  :(
>
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> Stan Seibert
>
> On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 20:49, Manuel Lora wrote:
> > It seems that they are not using Vorbis because of the lack of compatible
> > software available as of NOW (they mentioned Real and iTunes). But then
> > they mentioned also that they are expecting devices to support Vorbis, so
> > who knows :)
> >
> > ml
> >
> > On Thursday 03 April 2003 08:42 pm, Stan Seibert wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 19:13, Ross Levis wrote:
> > > > In the end, Ogg didn't measure up as our best candidate. We still
> > > > think Ogg is a worthwhile codec, and as such SHOUTcast-streamable
> > > > support for it is available via NSV.
> > >
> > > <lots of cutting>
> > >
> > > Okay, I read through this post several times and couldn't discern how
> > > exactly Ogg didn't measure up.  I think without that information, any
> > > advocacy (or attempt at improvement) would be sort of futile.
> > >
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> > >
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