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Technical Objections To the Ogg Container Format
E1ven writes "The Ogg container format is being promoted by the Xiph Foundation for use with its Vorbis and Theora codecs. Unfortunately, a number of technical shortcomings in the format render it ill-suited to most, if not all, use cases. This article examines the most severe of these flaws."
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No, he's saying that since nobody ever sets the field it's of limited current use. It can be replaced by a single bit which, when set to 1, would invoke processing of another version field. But his argument is begging the question, as the field is there clearly to allow for more than one version, so the designers had prescience in that regard. He's saying they shouldn't have bothered. But if they hadn't, he'd probably be asking what happens if someone wants to use a different version.
If they had used a single bit to indicate a version-field extension was present, he would have had nothing to complain about, but since nobody designs packet headers that way, it's almost unthinkable that anyone would have done it that way in the first place.
Most of his objections are correct in detail, but pointless in gross. It's clear to anyone watching that the inner workings of file formats are not of economic interest to the end user. They are only too happy to download files in a dozen formats, totally ignorant of these petty inefficiencies, but getting furious when the player refuses to render them.
So everyone should just shut up and implement the ogg decoder we have, along with every other decoder necessary to read every file format in existence, because to do otherwise ranks you with the weak, lame, and lazy.
I can't say anything about video, but for audio all my CD collection is converted to Ogg instead of MP3, you can't even spot the difference in quality, thou the filesize is smaller. BTW, my MP3 player supports Ogg playing as well.
1.-I was talking about MSFT MP4 files. 2.-While it may have some support in certain audio players (never actually seen a Cowon sold in stores BTW, just online) in the decade + that I have been working PC repair I have never actually seen a Vorbis file cross my desk. Not a single one. Currently the numbers are 80-20%, with the 80 being MP3 and the 20 being those that used WMP to rip and ended up with WMA. 3.-I predict Theora is all but a corpse. If I had to guess at a "winner"? It will be flash online, and MKV everywhere else. never underestimate the power of piracy, it is why nearly every DVD player supports DivX now after all.
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