Re: [Fsfe-uk] Open Standards-based DVD Authoring

[Kevin Donnelly]

On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:00, Chris Croughton wrote:
> Very few of
> the people I know who I would want to send audio files have even heard
> of Ogg, let alone have software and hardware to play it 

Er - tell them about it, and send them the files as oggs with a link to the 
Zinf player (www.zinf.org)?  If free software people don't put themselves out 
a bit for free formats, then why should others?  My kids think I am slightly 
deranged to keep all our CDs in oggs rather than the mp3s their friends use, 
but at least they know a bit about the rationale, and if they need them on a 
phone they can transcode them to lower the quality/size.

> Its
> acceptance is growing slowly, but it has been several years already and
> there are still few hardware players which support it.

Likewise for hardware - Samsung, Cowon (iAudio), iRiver (to give just the big 
names) all make players for oggs - my son got a Samsung at Christmas.  It's 
just a matter of looking for them.  

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Kevin Donnelly

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