Nathan Anderson
2001-Jan-19 12:19 UTC
[vorbis-dev] Opportunity for Ogg/Vorbis in hardware...
Guys... I'm not subscribed to the list, but I've been reading your archives for about a year, watched the progress, the push to Beta 1, and been, frankly, in awe of some of the hard topics all of the extremely intelligent people who have been tackling. (I'm not too up on my fractal compression and using splines to track pixel motion in a stream.) Ok, that said, I was speaking with the people at ReQuest Multimedia (http://www.request.com) about their product, the AudioReQuest Jukebox. Right now, they only support MP3. I noticed on their webpage they can upgrade the unit via software to support more codecs in hardware. The rep said they had an update to support wma audio in the works. I asked if they had any other updates planned. She told me that they were limited by the cost of licensing the codecs. I naturally suggested Ogg/Vorbis, and pointed her to www.vorbis.com. I mentioned the Free (Beer) nature of Ogg/Vorbis, and she replied with "For users, that is usually the case, but we, a manufacturer, must pay licensing fees to use/sell the encoders." I informed her that I was aware of the difference, and that the company would face NO licensing fees. Monty, is there any way someone from xiph could contact this company and maybe give them a (pseudo)corporate nudge? This product is advertised on thinkgeek.com, which is advertised on slashdot regularly. The only thing holding me back from purchasing this unit is that it does NOT support Ogg/Vorbis. I think that's all I had to say. Your work here is phenomenal, I use ogg everyday... :) Thank You, Nathan Anderson ====Nathan -- Nemo me impune lacessit. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Thanks for this and any other tips. I just spoke with Steve Vasquez, Audiorequest's CEO, and they will be building Vorbis into a future release of their product. :-) They're a really good bunch of people... Brian Zisk http://www.futureofmusic.org>Guys... I'm not subscribed to the list, but I've been reading your >archives for about a year, watched the progress, the push to Beta 1, >and been, frankly, in awe of some of the hard topics all of the >extremely intelligent people who have been tackling. (I'm not too up >on my fractal compression and using splines to track pixel motion in a >stream.) > >Ok, that said, I was speaking with the people at ReQuest Multimedia >(http://www.request.com) about their product, the AudioReQuest Jukebox. > Right now, they only support MP3. I noticed on their webpage they can >upgrade the unit via software to support more codecs in hardware. The >rep said they had an update to support wma audio in the works. I asked >if they had any other updates planned. She told me that they were >limited by the cost of licensing the codecs. I naturally suggested >Ogg/Vorbis, and pointed her to www.vorbis.com. I mentioned the Free >(Beer) nature of Ogg/Vorbis, and she replied with "For users, that is >usually the case, but we, a manufacturer, must pay licensing fees to >use/sell the encoders." I informed her that I was aware of the >difference, and that the company would face NO licensing fees. > >Monty, is there any way someone from xiph could contact this company >and maybe give them a (pseudo)corporate nudge? This product is >advertised on thinkgeek.com, which is advertised on slashdot regularly. > The only thing holding me back from purchasing this unit is that it >does NOT support Ogg/Vorbis. > >I think that's all I had to say. Your work here is phenomenal, I use >ogg everyday... :) > >Thank You, > >Nathan Anderson > >====>Nathan > >-- >Nemo me impune lacessit. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. >http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > >--- >8 ---- >List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ >Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ >To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-dev-request@xiph.org' >containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. >Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.-- Brian Zisk http://www.futureofmusic.org --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.