[vorbis] Ogg FLAC

[Per Wigren]

Looked through the license and it seems that it is heavily 
patented. So screw it! :-p

// Wigren

> >Kenneth Arnold wrote:
> >For all that verbosity, my proposition is a simple
> >question: what is the mimimum set of changes needed to 
make a killer
> >editing format out of Ogg, and are those modifications 
small enough
> >that streaming-Ogg and editing-Ogg can be unified such 
that one is
> >just a special case of another? I think this is an 
important concern
> >that is best addressed early if Ogg is to take over the 
world, i.e. if
> >adding editing capabilities requires a minor change to 
the bitstream
> >format for the streaming case (which ideally would be a 
simple result
> >of an editor splicing parts together on the fly), it's 
better to do it
> >now while we're still not locked into a bitstream 
(neither RC1 or RC2
> >will play anything but degenerate streams anyway AFAIK).
> 
> Why wouldn't you use AAF?  
http://www.aafassociation.org/index.html
>  From what little I understand, Ogg was designed with the 
purpose of acting
> as a transport stream rather than an editing format. Are 
there reasons not
> to adopt AAF? It appears (I've never used it personally) 
to have a very
> robust handling of metadata, tagging info and media, 
ideal for editing
> situations.
> 
> -Reuben
> 
> 
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