From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:58:40 -0700 From: Randolph Fritz To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Gecko based web browser Message-ID: <20000719005840.A3921@cyber-dyne.com> References: <200007190718.DAA24199@cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200007190718.DAA24199@cse.psu.edu>; from forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 08:18:36AM +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e3cd48f8-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 08:18:36AM +0000, forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote: > > much more as i expected (which is why i asked). i knew about the > stream format (more or less) because that's publicly documented. > some web content that end users want to have is not. it's only > available via binary plug-ins, and some -- perhaps many -- of those > only work under windows (and sometimes only within a browser, though > that might not be true of realaudio). by `format' i meant the whole > thing. it seems a bit pointless to implement the transport without > being able to replay the sounds it contains. > On the other hand, Ogg Vorbis *is* an open audio compression format. I don't know much about it, but more can be found at . -- Randolph Fritz Eugene, Oregon, USA