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> Is SOM related with PlayOgg? | > Is SOM related with PlayOgg? | ||
> No, and if you actually want to help promote Open Media formats | > No, and if you actually want to help promote Open Media formats | ||
> like Vorbis avoid them. Threat tactics, desinformation, and ignorancy | > like Vorbis avoid them. Threat tactics, desinformation, and ignorancy | ||
> do _not_ pass the message we want. | > do _not_ pass the message we want. | ||
Please rewrite. It's '''_NOT_''' obvious at all who of them (SOM, PlayOgg, Vorbis) is the good and should be promoted and who is the evil and should be avoided ... | Please rewrite. It's '''_NOT_''' obvious at all who of them (SOM, PlayOgg, Vorbis) is the good and should be promoted and who is the evil and should be avoided ... | ||
Revision as of 06:29, 2 August 2007
AndreI wrote:
> Why aren't GIF, JPEG, and JPEG2000 on this list?
JPEG2000: highly proprietary
JPEG: proprietary (?), lossy with little benefit only, too much inappropriate usage (poor quality images)
GIF: used to be affected by LZW84 patent, this is now expired, but still not fully free (?), obsolete, poor compression, 256 colors only. Problem: no usable PNG animation so far :-(
Saoshyant wrote:
> Is SOM related with PlayOgg?
> No, and if you actually want to help promote Open Media formats
> like Vorbis avoid them. Threat tactics, desinformation, and ignorancy
> do _not_ pass the message we want.
Please rewrite. It's _NOT_ obvious at all who of them (SOM, PlayOgg, Vorbis) is the good and should be promoted and who is the evil and should be avoided ...