On Friday 13 January 2006 08:35, Daniele Sempione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MPC is a lossy compression format like MP3 or Ogg Vorbis. It is > based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but has vastly > improved.
If it's based on the MPEG algorithms then it's also subject to the MPEG patents. Why would we want to have such a program which is not legally usable in most jurisdictions as well as having a total lack of content? OGG is free and not encumbered by any patents, there are a good number of OGG files available from many sources, and OGG is well supported by many other devices. Many personal music players support OGG, my iRiver supports OGG and MP3. It seems to me that the benefits of OGG over MPC (as you describe it) are so great that there's no benefit in creating a new "non-US" archive for it. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]