[vorbis] The OGG Extension...(fwd)

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Monty wrote:

> > And prey tell, why does QuickTime work so well with one extension?
> 
> That's easy... QuickTime is a bunch of proprietary cr*p, and you can only
> play it with their players (which naturally support all encoding types
> they have) You can't play a quicktime file with winamp or any other
> players....

I have quite a few programs that can play QuickTime, and only a few are
made by Apple. I have written programs that can play QuickTime.

You just call the QuickTime libraries (which are, btw, very versatile).

> It's easy.... but limiting users to using that and only that
> player/launcher... think 'free speech' here...

You could use any launcher you wished. And if you wanted to, you could
rename your ogg's in any way you wish. I was under the impression we were
talking about the default settings --- not the only settings.

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