[MPlayer-users] Feature Request: Ogg encapsulation

[Petr Ketner]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:25:35 -0700 (MST)
Mike Melanson <melanson at pcisys.net> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, BlackRider wrote:
> 
> > > mplayer will support this AS SOON AS the author of dshwo filter releases
> > > teh sources or someone reverse engineer the format... (not trivial ogg
> > > packets)
> > > 
> > > i see many of you wants this... so let's contact the author and force him
> > > to send the sources... he promised it a week ago, but still not sent...
> > 
> > And why you can't use libogg?
> 
> 	I'm certainly no expert on this matter, but based on what I've
> been able to pick up from the conversation, I'm guessing that the Ogg
> standard provides for proprietary, application-specific extensions, and
> that there's a popular application out there producing Ogg files with such
> a proprietary extension. My wager is that we're waiting for information on
> the dshow filter extensions.

this is from ogg vorbis homepage:

Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and
streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source.

This dont sounds much proprietary...

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