[vorbis] MOre streaming media to ponder

[Darren Meyer]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:58:39AM +1100, Geoff Shang wrote:
> For the full story:
> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/12/12/001212hnisma.xml?1212tupm

Interesting, but somehow I don't see this as a threat to OGG/Vorbis.

Vorbis has a lot more potential use than just streaming.  Even -if- this
standards organization creates widely-accepted streaming media standards
that exclude Vorbis, there are plenty of other reasons to continue Vorbis
development.  The Vorbis encoding system has, IMHO, the best potential of
becoming a near-transparent audio encoder -- the quality, even in Beta2, was
superior in many ways to MP3.  Granted, there are artifact issues to work
out, but each beta update relieves many, many of them.

That aside, I think it would be interesting for Xiph to look into becoming a
member/being an advisor to this new group.  Having input to standards based
on experience with Vorbis would benefit everyone.

All in all, any open standards group is a good thing.

Cheers,
Darren

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