[vorbis] RE: [advanced] Response to Ogg Vorbis comments

[Wilson]

I have Windows Media Player 6.4, on Windows 2000. I just tested a 320kbps
MP3, and it works fine.
I made the MP3 with LAME, in case you're curious..

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aleksandar Dovnikovic" <aldov at EUnet.yu>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] RE: [advanced] Response to Ogg Vorbis comments

> "Frank Heckenbach" <frank at g-n-u.de> wrote:
>
> > ISTR someone mentioned that m$ is crippling mp3 in their players.
> > Not that I want to defend mp3 in any way, but there's no reason to
> > assume they'll be any nicer to Ogg/Vorbis.
>
> Windows Media Player 6.4 (the one I have) can't play 320kbps
> files - all I get is total silence. One would expect that this
> has been fixed in later WMP versions, but as I hear it
> isn't.
>
> Also, there will be no MP3 encoding (not even at low bitrates) in
> Windows XP. Of course you can install any MP3 encoder
> you want, but there will be no MP3 encoding tool shipping
> with Windows XP.
>
>
> ---
> Aleksandar @ Vorbis Xtreme | http://solair.eunet.yu/~aldov
> Ogg Vorbis is the free, open source alternative to MP3
>
>
>
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