The Future of Ogg Vorbis

Brett writes "The author of MAD, the fixed point MP3 decoder comments on what is wrong with Ogg Vorbis, with a response from jack, one of the founders of the format. "Ogg Vorbis may be the holy grail of patent-free audio compression, but there are some serious issues blocking its path to widespread acceptance. Unfortunately most of us are powerless to correct the situation; the problems must be addressed by Vorbis' creators. " The rest of the of the story is currently running on K5." And Jack's response is enlightening as well.

Comments

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[zerosignal]

Sorry for the rambling. Writing in this little box is a little difficult and is not nearly as much fun as Emacs :). If anyone has any questions regarding you can contact emmett@xiph.org or myself if I don't respond to here.

Can someone please teach this guy how to use 'copy and paste'!

Re:wtf?

[Explo]

Why, pray tell, would you try to submit an audio codec to the Internet Engineering Task Force, or the World Wide Web Consortium? Why not submit it to one of the 'really well known' and yet APPROPRIATE standards bodies?

Yes, they should submit to the Microsoft, the standards body that has done good work to correct Kerberos, HTML and several other standards from their initially flawed state;)

Re:wtf?

[archen]

because the LAST thing we want is for Mozilla and IE to render ogg files differently! I'm sick of lining everything up with a million tables =P

Re:a rose is but a rose...

[SoupIsGoodFood_42]

If they dropped the Ogg part it sounds OK. Vorbis for the long name, and .VRB for the file name. 'Vee are bee' doesn't sound too bad. Or maybe .VBS (hmmm... I'm sure if seen that somewhere before, maybe skip that one).

Re:wtf?

[sharkey]

Check the 'Presentation Layer' of the well known seven layer model.

The Taco Bell 7-Layer model? The Presentation Layer is the Cheese, if I am not mistaken.