Vorbis - Mar 2005 - Pretec Allegro does not appear to play Oggs

Can I change the wiki? The box claims it plays oggs, the tech. specs. in 
the booklet claims it plays oggs, *some* places on the website claims it 
supports oggs, but it doesn't actually play my oggs. Can I move it to a 
"misadvertised" section, or a "rumours" section, or what can
I do to
indicate this to other people, so they don't accidentaly buy it?

Hugo

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 06:28:21PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe
wrote:
> Can I change the wiki? The box claims it plays oggs, the tech. specs. in 
> the booklet claims it plays oggs, *some* places on the website claims it 
> supports oggs, but it doesn't actually play my oggs. Can I move it to a
> "misadvertised" section, or a "rumours" section, or
what can I do to
> indicate this to other people, so they don't accidentaly buy it?
Since you purchased it, you should contact the company and complain.

Someone from Xiph should probobally follow this up.  It's a very big 
deal when manufacturers are claiming support when they don't actually 
offer it.

I think this goes back to the idea of putting together a set of minimum 
requirements something must fufill before saying it "supports Ogg".  
Prehaps going as far as enforcing our trademarks and actually requiring 
a certification process before claiming support.

Not to add extra hurdles for player developers, but we're going to 
quickly loose our market edge if consumers begin ignoring the "Ogg 
Supported" features advertised for a product.

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On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:28:21 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe
<hugo@dsp.sun.ac.za> wrote:
> Can I change the wiki? The box claims it plays oggs, the tech. specs. in
> the booklet claims it plays oggs, *some* places on the website claims it
> supports oggs, but it doesn't actually play my oggs. Can I move it to a
> "misadvertised" section, or a "rumours" section, or
what can I do to
> indicate this to other people, so they don't accidentaly buy it?
You're welcome to change the wiki. A section (or probably a seperate
page?) for "things that claim to play vorbis but don't" would be a
good idea.

As Arc said, you should definately complain to the manufacturer.

One other thought: it might just be some oggs that it can't play.
Could you show us the output of ogginfo on one of the files that
doesn't work?

Mike