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The difference being that Vorbis has almost no commercial traction. If large, popular services (like YouTube, for instance) decided to go with a codec like Web
by CyberMonk 16y ago
The difference being that Vorbis has almost no commercial traction. If large, popular services (like YouTube, for instance) decided to go with a codec like WebM, the MPEG-LA might finally decide to make good on those threats.
- patrickaljord 16y agoVorbis is being used in many of the biggest games, the gaming industry is a multi-billion dollar one, why not sue them? Doesn't make sense unless they really secretly hate google and only want to sue them...
- CyberMonk 16y agoTrue, but Vorbis is an audio spec, not a video one. Theora, which would arguably be more on MPEG-LA's radar, is used in only a handful of titles: http://wiki.xiph.org/Games_that_use_Theora http://wiki.xiph.org/Games_that_use_Theora
- blasdel 16y agoWhy did you argue with yourself instead of editing your parent post?
- jarek 16y agoI'm guessing he was replying to patrickaljord but the reply button wasn't there yet.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoThat's just an out of date list e.g. Starcraft II used Theora (and Vorbis).
- halo 16y agoSpotify uses Vorbis and has ten million users.
- bzbarsky 16y agoYouTube announced months ago that they're transcoding pretty much everything they have to WebM. They've been working on it ever since; a significant fraction of YouTube videos are available in WebM right this second.