[vorbis] RC2 on slashdot.org

[Getchoo!]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Dickson" <crdic at yahoo.com>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] RC2 on slashdot.org

> Getchoo! wrote:
>
> > Hardware players, eh?  I own an RCA Lyra and if you use RealJukebox to
send
> > music, it can play RealAudio as well as mp3, Likewise with Windows Media
> > Player and WMA, so why not Ogg?
>
> Is that because the Lyra has support for other formats, or because
> RealJukebox is re-encoding the music to MP3 before transmitting it?
>
> Craig
>
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No, It does support multiple formats.

Vorbis would be a great format for portable players, since you can use lower
bitrates like 64 kbps, the other formats sound like crap under 128, which
isn't good since you're working with a very small space, like 64 and 32 MB.

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