Wikipedia chose Ogg Vorbis [LWN.net]

Wikipedia chose Ogg Vorbis

Posted Apr 15, 2008 23:14 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: GNU and FSF tell WBUR.org Boston: PlayOgg! by drag
Parent article: GNU and FSF tell WBUR.org Boston: PlayOgg!

FWIW, when the Wikipedia community had the debate over which format to use for the recordings
of spoken articles, Ogg Vorbis won.

Mp3 was the second choice and speex the third.  Ogg Vorbis beat speex because it was agreed
that some usability could be sacrificed to avoid patents, but they couldn't then further
sacrifice usability for the sake of using the technically superior format.

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