[Vorbis] Ogg container format question

[Sebastian Gesemann]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004, Ralph Giles wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 02:22:11AM +0200, Horv?th Csaba wrote:
> 
> > I've heard, that the ogg container format makes it easier to stream
> > vorbis and other formats, but why is that better, than streaming mp3?
> > Also, what are the other adventages?
> 
> Well, the main reason to stream Ogg Vorbis rather than mp3 is because
> Vorbis is a free codec and mp3 is not.
> 
> I'm not familiar enough with the mpeg program stream to be sure, but I think
> Ogg isn't hugely better for just audio streaming applications. I think it has
> better corruption detection, but that's more an issue with files than with 
> http streams. It's just a lot more flexible, and of course controlled by the
> open source community.
>
> <snip>

Just out of curiosity...
How do you define "control" in this context ?


Ghis!
Sebastian

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