[maemo-developers] The encumberance of Ogg (was Re: How to add ogg to the supported codecs/containers list?)

[From: Michael Wiktowy]

On Dec 8, 2007 12:34 PM, Tuomas Kulve <tuomas at kulve.fi> wrote:
> Replying again to myself.
>
> It seems that if I remove the *.ogg from the mime file, the metalayer
> crawler does get the proper mime type for the ogg audios
> (audio/x-vorbis+ogg) and videos (video/x-theora+ogg) and the MP seems to
> be able to play the files from the Library. Still no artist/etc info..
>
> But now the FM says "Unable to recognise file type of: filename.ogg"
> even though the details button shows the correct mime type for the file
> and the MP's desktop file has the exact same mimetype. Does the FM only
> know to how start apps by the extension?
>
> Metalayer crawler adds "Theora" as the codec for the video file. I
> wonder where that comes from? For the vorbis audio the codec field is
> empty. The word "Theora" does not exist in the mime file.

Great work! I tried out the latest ogg support package and it is
really coming along. I am glad someone from the community is picking
up on fixing this bug that has been existing since people found out
that the 770 wasn't going to support ogg.

Starting a new topic thread since I don't want to hijack the parent one:
I really don't understand Nokia's hesitation wrt supporting ogg
officially. In fact, they seem to be actively surpressing it as an
emerging standard. (ref:
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/positions/Nokia.pdf ). I would love to
hear the reasoning behind calling ogg "proprietary" and why Nokia
Maemo devs won't touch ogg with a 10 foot pole while seeming to remain
(morally) supportive here. Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree but
there is obviously a force here that is working in the background;  no
conspiracy ... just a completely different way of thinking about it
than the free software community that maybe can be reconciled one way
or another.

/Mike