Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard [LWN.net]

Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard

Posted Dec 10, 2006 7:00 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard by bronson
Parent article: Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard

I have to dissagree with vorbis being 'killed'.

It's not as popular as mp3 or itunes stuff, but it's supported by many different peices of software, used in a lot of games, and is supported by a wide veriaty of hardware.

It's actually quite widely known.

If people actually start _using_ theora then it will be known. Your not going to have a codec get accepted just becuase it has a cool name, there has to be a reason for people to go and download it.

Ogg is quite kick-ass. 255 possible audio channels, Theora has good compression and I expect that subtitles support is good compared to AVI. Very recently there has been supported added to Flac for Ogg support.

So even from a pure technical standpoint there are plenty or reasons to use Ogg Theora/Flac/Vorbis for a wide veriaty of stuff. You can create some very feature-rich media files and media streaming is very smart.

The major downside for Theora, in my personal experiance, is that the codec itself is not well optimized cpu-wise. I am sure it's been improved since then, but I also expect that there is work to do.

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