Java should support MPEG4, and MP3 on all systems - maybe OGG but nobody uses it so it doesn't matter.
Nobody uses OGG? Wrong. Free Software Foundation uses OGG. Many other companies uses OGG internally.
And who was using On2's VP6 codec before Adobe licensed it to be the default in Flash? Near to nobody.
The same with VP6, OGG could also be the DEFAULT in Java. Having a default is better than giving the developers and end users a problem which codec they would care out of tens of codecs in the world.
We are following Flash success here and Flash has proved that having a default CODEC is the way to go.
Make MPEG 4 the default? Java is owned by the community and not by a rich company like Adobe. Adobe pays MPEG 4 license because they're rich. Now who's gonna pay for Java? OGG is here to save Java. OGG is FOSS and the quality is competitive. |
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