- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:34:06 +0000
On 11 Dec 2007, at 19:04, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: > You are right. My bad. Why don't we write in the spec? > > "Examples of widely recognized free-for-use audio formats are Ogg > Vorbis and > FLAC" It was intended as meaning "recognized" in the sense of browsers recognising them. No currently shipping browser recognises either Ogg Vorbis or FLAC. > The answer to that question is that Apple and Nokia don't want us to > use Ogg > Vorbis because they sell their own, encumbered tech and we would be > less > likely to license (read: give them monopoly rents) their tech. The > very > MENTION of Ogg in the spec threatens their monopoly rents, and > that's why > they had it removed. > > It's just dollars. Apple does not license Apple Lossless to anyone else AFAIK, and the only standards that MPEG-LA collects money for that Apple receives any share of whatsoever is "MPEG-4 Systems" and IEEE 1394 (Firewire). Neither of these have anything to do with audio/video codecs. Saying that Apple has a financial interest in wanting MPEG codecs mandated in HTML 5 is totally untrue. -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
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