Dan Ingalls wrote:
> 
> Tim Hanson <tbhanson at gmx.de> wrote...
> > > I'd be interested in trying to make MP3s or some other convenient
> > > format I could share with friends via the web.
> 
> Craig Latta <Craig.Latta at netjam.org> replied...
> >       I recommend Ogg Vorbis (vorbis.com), a "completely open, patent-free,
> >professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the
> >benefits of Open Source." I think it sounds great, and far preferable to
> >MP3 technically for several reasons (space, quality, scaling). Software
> >for it abounds.
> 
> I second the motion.
> 
> As soon as I understood all the legal issues surrounding MP3, I wanted to do an open alternative >(hey, can't be *that* hard, right? ;-).  Ogg Vorbis (see, eg, http://www.vorbislinks.com/) seems to > be exactly this kind of movement and I am strongly in support of it.  Squeak could be a neat 
> synergy for them, and it would be a valueable tool for Squeak.

(Belatedly, thirded). Now, if someone could work out a way of combining
compression, the jmv movie format and Ogg Vorbis, we'd _really_ have
something.

Cheers

John

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