Ogg Vorbis justification

2009-08-07T17:46:54Z

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== Licensing ==

The file format and codec specifications and implementations are freely available:

* Ogg Vorbis specification: [http://vorbis.com/faq/#flic public domain]
* libogg: [http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/ogg/COPYING BSD]
* libvorbis: [http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/vorbis/COPYING BSD]
* tremor: [http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/Tremor/COPYING BSD]
* Relevant Internet drafts and standards: [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3533 RFC 3533], [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5215 RFC 5215], [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5334 RFC 5334].

== Interoperability ==

=== Online content and services using Ogg Vorbis ===

* http://vorbis.com/music_links/
* http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/ogg_data/oggsites
* http://dir.xiph.org/by_format/Ogg_Vorbis
* http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisStreams
* http://librivox.org/ (via http://www.archive.org/details/librivoxaudio)
* http://www.mindawn.com/index.php
* http://www.jamendo.com/
* http://www.spotify.com/
* http://www.squeezenetwork.com/
* http://wikipedia.org/ -- Wikipedia uses Ogg Vorbis exclusively, both for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creation_and_usage_of_media_files#Audio sounds included in articles] and for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia Spoken Wikipedia Project].

=== Third party software and hardware ===

Too many to list here, but see (not entirely up to date):

* [http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers Portable] consumer devices with Ogg Vorbis support.
* [http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/StaticPlayers Static] consumer devices with Ogg Vorbis support.
* [http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisSoftwarePlayers Software] players for other platforms.

Firefox 3.5 and later includes Vorbis (and Theora) support integrated with the browser.

== Competing devices with Ogg Vorbis support out of the box ==

See above. It's not clear what Nokia may consider as competing devices, but notable examples include:

* [http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/g1-with-google-phone/specs/ T-Mobile G1]
* Archos [http://www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_7/specs.html?country=ca&lang=en 5] & [http://www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_7/specs.html?country=ca&lang=en 7]
* Garmin nüvi [http://www.garmin.com/manuals/nuvi5000_ENOwnersManual.pdf 5000] and [http://www8.garmin.com/ces/nuvi800/index.html 800] series.
* Several Samsung phones (eg [http://www.samsung.com/me/products/mobilephones/gsm/sgh_i320.asp SGHi320], [http://www.samsung.com/sec/news/newsRead.do?news_group=productnews&news_type=consumer&news_ctgry=mobilephone&news_seq=231 SPH-S4300], [http://www.samsung.com/uk/news/newsRead.do?news_group=productnews&news_type=consumerproduct&news_ctgry=mp3&news_seq=11024&search_keyword=&from_dt=&to_dt= Q1 Diamond] and [http://www.samsung.com/uk/news/newsRead.do?news_group=productnews&news_type=consumerproduct&news_ctgry=mobilephone&news_seq=10925 i900 Omnia])
* Many many media players by Cowon/iAudio, iRiver, SanDisk, Samsung and others.

== Good will ==

* Ogg Vorbis support is the oldest open enhancement request on the Maemo bugzilla, as well as the one with the largest number of votes (over three times as many as the next one as of 2008-12-22).

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