"Vorbis is the best lossy audio codec" - Do you have data to back up this assertion? I am not an expert here, I had the naïve assumption that AAC was better given that major devices (e.g. iPod) use this format over Vorbis. I would love to see some data (other than some studies from 2005 on some forum that Wikipedia links to).
"Widely adopted ... in portable media players?" Really? iPod? Zune? 2009/7/15 Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Remco wrote: > > > > A few years ago, Vorbis as a baseline codec for <audio> was dismissed, > > because it was expected that the audio codec agreed upon to be used with > > <video> would also be used with <audio>. Now that agreement on a codec > > for <video> is out of the question, Vorbis can again be considered as a > > baseline codec for <audio>. > > Given the problem we had with the video codec, I would like to request > that those of you interested in getting a standard audio codec do so by > directly working with the browser vendors to get an agreement. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >