On Fri, 23 May 2003 01:42:39 +0900, Guillaume Blanchard
<gblanchard(a)arcsy.co.jp> gave utterance to the following:
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).
sure wav's ADPCM is a poor compression ;o)
if I asked if we can use mp3 is mostly because ogg is not supported by
<embed>.
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.
<embed> can play on demand only -> autostart="false"
I suppose we can deal with sound without a player, but I think it's pity.
<embed> is W3C standard, isn't it ?
Nope - it's Netscape proprietary. The W3C equivalent would be <object
type="audio/rtp-vorbis"> (or possibly type="audio/vorbis")
--
Richard Grevers
Confucius say: People having gift for gab know not how to wrap it up