- From: Jack Jansen <jack@oratrix.nl>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:28:25 +0100
- To: ph@w3.org
- Cc: thierry michel <tmichel@w3.org>, www-smil@w3.org, discuss@apps.ietf.org, Glenn Parsons <gparsons@nortelnetworks.com>
> The rationale for picking audio/basic was that it > is widely supported in SMIL players today, and doesn't > require paying a license fee. > > If you know of another license-free, widely > supported audio format with better > characteristics than audio/basic, that may be > interesting. AIFF could be an alternative. If I remember correctly there are different mimetypes for aiff (uncompressed) and aifc (compressed) the aiff format doesn't suffer of the WAV problem of having a gazillion different options for compression scheme. It does (theoretically?) allow for choices in samplesize, sampleencoding (int/float/ulaw) and such, but at least it isn't open-ended. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.oratrix.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm
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