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[Marghanita da Cruz]

Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> 
>> OGG seems pretty widely used....Windows and I-Pod users recognise the 
>> word - could call it a standard.
>>
>> Not sure whether Vorbis and Theora open format's yet fall into the 
>> standard category. ie whether anyone else other than the proponent of 
>> the format has adopted it.
> 
> 
> Actually OGG is just a container format.  What you are referring to as 
> OGG is actually OGG/Vorbis (meaning Vorbis content in an OGG container). 
>  OGG can however contain Theora too.
> 
So is MS AVI "just a container format".

But my point was that OGG and as you point out OGG/Vorbis seems to be 
quite widely adopted.

Not sure Theora has acheived that status.

Marghanita
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