<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Remco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:remco47@gmail.com">remco47@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
A few years ago, Vorbis as a baseline codec for <audio> was dismissed,<br>
because it was expected that the audio codec agreed upon to be used<br>
with <video> would also be used with <audio>. Now that agreement on a<br>
codec for <video> is out of the question, Vorbis can again be<br>
considered as a baseline codec for <audio>.<br>
<br>
To get the discussion started: a few reasons to require Vorbis for <audio>:<br>
<br>
* De facto baseline codec PCM WAV is ridiculous for music and spoken<br>
word - the major use cases of <audio><br>
* Vorbis is the best lossy audio codec<br>
* Vorbis is widely adopted by major companies in portable media players<br>
* Vorbis is royalty-free<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It has been tried but Apple will not implement it due to hardware limitations.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Remco<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>- Adam Shannon ( <a href="http://ashannon.us">http://ashannon.us</a> )<br>