Ogg Vorbis justification

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Licensing

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

Interoperability

Online content and services using Ogg Vorbis

Third party software and hardware

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

  • Portable consumer devices with Ogg Vorbis support.
  • Static consumer devices with Ogg Vorbis support.
  • Software players for other platforms.

The next revision of Firefox (3.5) will include 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:

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).