Re: [playogg-discuss] Acceptance of Ogg at end-users with illegal downloads

[Devon Meunier]

That's purely subjective. They're both lossy formats and assuming q8 versus v0 you'd be hard pressed to hear the difference, particularly on the average setup of computer speakers/cheap audio chipsets/cheap headphones. That said, I believe there are some podcasts offering their download in ogg format. (The Linux Action Show for example.) One issue with this however, is that iTunes is probably the most common podcast aggregator.

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:50 PM, SMC <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tuesday 18 August 2009 13:14:23 Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
> On 8/17/09, Jeff <address@hidden> wrote:
> > It would probably be more effective to find humorous comedy bits
> > online and e-mail them out to friends and family, after converting it
> > to ogg.  Then provide a link for windows and/or mac users to download
> > an ogg player to hear it.
>
> Exactly.  In fact SOM has been advocating this for a year now:
> http://spreadopenmedia.org/campaigns/share-the-funnies/
>
> -Ivo

Another potential outlet would be "oggcasts" (c.f. "podcast").  In addition to
an "enclosed" Ogg Vorbis audio file (or Ogg Theora video) a page with an
embedded <audio> tag for playing it right in the browser might have some
appeal.  Certainly, for the same file size, the Ogg Vorbis audio sounds better
to me than the "standard" mp3 files...