Betanews has done an interview with the Vorbis Product Manager, Jack Moffitt. He is (together with tens of people) responsible that there is such a thing a OGG. Ogg vorbis is an open source music format free of any licensing restrictions. And this is exactly the reason why this could become very populair. The royalties for the mp3PRO format are very high. They are working very hard on this new format. Also the quality is improving with a new RC.
BetaNews: RC1 brought some major changes to the [Ogg Vorbis] format and boasted some big numbers to compete with mp3PRO. What is new in RC2 and what do you think the impact of those changes will be? |
Jack Moffitt: RC1 was decoder focused, and RC2 is encoder focused. RC1 put all the features in the decoder that were left for 1.0, and RC2 starts to use these features for even better compression and quality. The biggest change is that we're now doing channel coupling, which means using information among multiple channels to compress even more. This release should convince all the people who have been skeptics before. Ogg Vorbis just sounds amazing.
They say they will pass the mp3PRO quality with this new RC2. And OGG is absolutely free, and MP3 is expensive.
Of course the succes of Ogg will depend on the usage of YOU. If many people offer Ogg content this could perhaps work. You can read the complete interview at BetaNews.
Why do you think of Ogg? React below!
Source: betanews
