--- Martin Grimme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have written a little program which can fluently > play OGG Vorbis > files on the device. This shows that OGG support is > technically > possible and, by utilizing the DSP, it could even be > implemented more > efficient. That's cool. There has been some confusion on why there is no official OGG support. As far as I can tell, the situation is as follows (note: I'm not working for Nokia or any other such company, and I don't actually know any hidden, hard facts. Consider the following an educated guess) The lack of OGG is caused by two things. The time shortage has already been mentioned on this list. There have been semi-reliable rumors that DSP-accelerated OGG is now working somewhere in the vaults of Nokia. The other reason is a combination of lawyers and SW patents. As far as people can tell, there are no patents on OGG. But a company the size of Nokia can't rely on that. They have to check and then double check for themselves, which is a slow process. Their lawyers simply will not allow an unchecked release, because otherwise some IP poachers could sue them for millions of dollars due to "patent infringement". Given the current (sorry) state of patent laws, this is unfortunately the way it _has_ to go. Anyway, I'm fairly confident that the next (or the one after that) SW release will support OGG. Until then I'll just use this proggie to play my OGGs. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
