[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] OGG support

[From: Frédéric Crozat]

Le dimanche 30 octobre 2005 à 11:10 +0000, Clemens Eisserer a écrit :
> Wow, really great someone is really doing it finally, although I can't
> really underand why they did not include it in the default
> distribution - ogg is THE next generation audio compression format.
> I am looking excited foreward to test the first version!

It is quite simple : Nokia folks explained it during their presentation
at GUADEC : they didn't had time to implement both MP3 and OGG, so they
decided to do MP3 support first, because it is still the most used audio
format by average users. Same idea for video, which is forcing N770 to
use both Real Helix and Gstreamer in the video player, because they
needed Real suppport. Of course, Nokia developers really wanted to
support open formats but those were not a priority, which is quite
understandable when you think they want to do a successful product for
everybody, not only free software geeks..

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Frédéric Crozat - fred at crozat.net