- From: Adam Shannon <ashannon1000@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:16:22 -0500
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Remco <remco47 at gmail.com> wrote: > A few years ago, Vorbis as a baseline codec for <audio> was dismissed, > because it was expected that the audio codec agreed upon to be used > with <video> would also be used with <audio>. Now that agreement on a > codec for <video> is out of the question, Vorbis can again be > considered as a baseline codec for <audio>. > > To get the discussion started: a few reasons to require Vorbis for <audio>: > > * De facto baseline codec PCM WAV is ridiculous for music and spoken > word - the major use cases of <audio> > * Vorbis is the best lossy audio codec > * Vorbis is widely adopted by major companies in portable media players > * Vorbis is royalty-free > It has been tried but Apple will not implement it due to hardware limitations. > > Remco > -- - Adam Shannon ( http://ashannon.us ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090715/c942f930/attachment-0001.htm>
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