[Wikipedia-l] Re: Theora bitstream frozen...

Tue Jun 22 08:12:51 UTC 2004

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:33:44AM +0100, Timwi wrote:
> Delirium wrote:
> 
> > Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> > 
> >> I think we are now in a position to go ahead and start adding Theora 
> >> videos to Wikipedia, if anybody has suitable video to add!
> >
> > I'm not sure adding videos to Wikipedia in a format that almost nobody 
> > can play is really the absolute best thing to do, even if it is all 
> > fuzzy and open source...
> 
> The quantification "almost nobody" applies now, but for how much longer? 
> Ogg Vorbis has taken off quite remarkably. 
No it hasn't. It is almost unheard of outside the linux world. Still,
I support an open format for music/videos. The effort required to get 
an ogg plugin for your favorite player is small enough that even if
someone hasn't heard of ogg before it shouldn't be a big deal.

Arvind
-- 
Its all GNU to me