Oggs are great unless you actually want to play them because the codecs seem to slow things down considerably.Game developers use them loads because you don't have to pay for the rights though.
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Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:53,
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Never noticed any slowdowneven on my old AMD 500Mhz machine which played them fine through Winamp. The support on MP3 players is wank though, I think iRiver are still the only ones with support out of the box and apparently that's crap. If I could rip my collection again though I'd do it to MP3.
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boris the spider,
Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:57,
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That would be the main reason for my hypothesis that it slows the fuck out of things.Because otherwise why would mp3 players not support it when it's open source?
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Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:01,
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I've got no idea at allI did come across some firmware patches for a load of different players that gives them OGG support, though, so it's far from impossible. Doesn't work for mine, unfortunately.
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Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:07,
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market "penetration"mp3 was around long long before ogg
and people is used to it, and folk is used to paying and blaa blaa
and if you make a media player these days, it has to play mp3, there's just no way around that everything else is pretty much secondary
(and people is used to it, and folk is used to paying and blaa blaa
and if you make a media player these days, it has to play mp3, there's just no way around that everything else is pretty much secondary
discomeats This canoe,
Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:20,
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