Ogg Format Accusations Refuted

SergeyKurdakov sends in a followup to our discussion a couple of months ago on purported shortcomings to the Ogg format. The inventor of the format, Monty "xiphmont" Montgomery of the Xiph Foundation, now refutes those objections in detail, with the introduction: "Earnest falsehoods left unchallenged risk being accepted as fact." The refutation has another advantage besides authoritativeness: it's far better written than the attack.

Comments

Re:Obligatory

[pandrijeczko]

I thought this was a discussion about the ogg format, not totally overrated badly-drawn unfunny crap on the Internet?

Re:Well written, and informative, but...

[Blakey Rat]

It's not well-written at all. He responds to obvious jokes with indignant corrections. For example, this one:

32.
            Generality
    33.

    34.
            Ogg, legend tells, was designed to be a general-purpose container
    35.
            format.

"Legend tells us"? Ogg is not a dramatic, unknowable mystery shrouded in the mists of time. I designed it. I'm alive and willing to answer any questions about the format. Allow me this opportunity to reiterate that Ogg was designed as a general purpose container.

(Sorry about the formatting-- he also formatted quotes from the original article like a 1975-era IBM line printer for some retarded reason.)

He has his knickers in a twist over an obvious joke intended to lighten-up the mood of the original article. It makes me sound like a humorless oversensitive prick from the very start. It doesn't help that he feels compelled to respond to things he has no debate over, like the format of the file header.

Anyway, I stopped reading after the first few pages. He's too uptight and protective to effectively defend the format.

(Cue the obvious: "how would anybody editing Slashdot articles know what 'well-written' looks like?" joke. At least the original article wasn't written by a humorless prick.)