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Western Digital is using it on their hdd controllers. SiFive licenses IP for big cores and China apparently plans to work with it in the future. Also I don't k

Western Digital is using it on their hdd controllers. SiFive licenses IP for big cores and China apparently plans to work with it in the future. Also I don't know why you count Ogg Vorbis as a fantasy kind of thing, it's used for pretty much any conference app and it has support on most consumer hardware and softwware for playback. Programs like EAC and dbpoweramp support it. I use it for my music collection on my phone, at half the size of mp3 it sounds completely transparent to me with my earbuds.

pjmlp 6y ago
Basically as much as PIC and similar chipsets, just without the tooling ecosystem.
coldtea 6y ago
>Also I don't know why you count Ogg Vorbis as a fantasy kind of thing, it's used for pretty much any conference app and it has support on most consumer hardware and softwware for playback. The idea in the day was it would replace mp3/aac/etc which it obviously didn't. That players support it is also not a mark of great success, since most people don't and won't care to use it. It just means that for the rare person caring enough, it will work. From that aspect, the fact that conference apps use it as the internal format is hardly relevant, they could license and use whatever and we wouldn't know any difference.
- HeadsUpHigh 6y ago
  >The idea in the day was it would replace mp3/aac/etc which it obviously didn't. It did for anyone that cares about it and about file size. My portable library is vorbis. Mp3 is just very popular and there are a lot of mp3 files out there that can't be converted without further degradation of the sound quality so mp3 will remain relevant for a long time. >From that aspect, the fact that conference apps use it as the internal format is hardly relevant, they could license and use whatever and we wouldn't know any difference. It's relevant in terms of market support. Vorbis isn't going anywhere. The random codecs that have popped over the years, open or proprietary never got a lot of support from other companies so they went away.

pjmlp 6y ago

Basically as much as PIC and similar chipsets, just without the tooling ecosystem.

coldtea 6y ago

>Also I don't know why you count Ogg Vorbis as a fantasy kind of thing, it's used for pretty much any conference app and it has support on most consumer hardware and softwware for playback. The idea in the day was it would replace mp3/aac/etc which it obviously didn't. That players support it is also not a mark of great success, since most people don't and won't care to use it. It just means that for the rare person caring enough, it will work. From that aspect, the fact that conference apps use it as the internal format is hardly relevant, they could license and use whatever and we wouldn't know any difference.

HeadsUpHigh 6y ago
>The idea in the day was it would replace mp3/aac/etc which it obviously didn't. It did for anyone that cares about it and about file size. My portable library is vorbis. Mp3 is just very popular and there are a lot of mp3 files out there that can't be converted without further degradation of the sound quality so mp3 will remain relevant for a long time. >From that aspect, the fact that conference apps use it as the internal format is hardly relevant, they could license and use whatever and we wouldn't know any difference. It's relevant in terms of market support. Vorbis isn't going anywhere. The random codecs that have popped over the years, open or proprietary never got a lot of support from other companies so they went away.