(Guillaume Blanchard <gblanchard(a)arcsy.co.jp>)p>):
I have some question about sound on Wikipedia.
1) Ogg format is a recommendation or an obligation ?
1 bis) Can we use other format like mp3, wav, etc... ?
2) Do you planed to support feature like <embed> ?
1) Ogg is recommended because it's a public standard,
freely available on all computers. MP3 has patent problems,
but is a de facto standard and should also be OK (if the
only source material you have is MP3, don't bother recoding
to Ogg as that will only reduce quality further). WAV is
uncompressed, and therefore unacceptable except in the
rarest of cases (I can only think of a few: like short test
sounds in articles about digital signal processing).
2) No, I don't ever plan to support embed. Sounds sould
play on demand only. I do plan to make some nicer features
for audio and video playback at some point.
--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee(a)piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
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are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
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