[vorbis] Vorbis vs Speex

[Stan Seibert]

On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 19:53, J C Fitzgerald wrote:
> *  It is unclear whether Speex will ever be included in hardware devices,
> *  The Speex user base may not have the critical mass needed to ensure its
>    survival,
> *  It seems doubtful that it will ever be widely supported in software,

These are statements that could be equally said about Vorbis 18 months
ago.

> *  Unexpected non-spoken components trigger a switch to Vorbis anyway, and

What do you mean by this?  Is this a feature of some software you are
using?  That would actually be very interesting.

> *  There are advantages to using a single lossy format for all recordings.

One format to rule them all, eh?  :)   Yeah, I can see the simplicity
argument here.


---
Stan Seibert

<p>--- >8 ----
List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request at xiph.org'
containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.