- From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:37:19 +1000
Matthew Gregan: > The reason for not selecting a video codec doesn't seem to have much weight > when considering Ogg Vorbis as a required audio codec. Apple's submarine > patent argument doesn't seem to hold, as many deep-pocketed companies > (including Microsoft) have shipped products with Vorbis support. It might > also be worth pointing out that the existing working draft of SVG 1.2 > includes a requirement for Vorbis support > (http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/media.html#audio-format). That?s an old draft of a specification that never got to completion, but the <audio> element was lifted from that and put in SVG Tiny 1.2: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/multimedia.html#AudioElement which says: This specification does not mandate support for any particular audio format. -- Cameron McCormack ? http://mcc.id.au/
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