15 Jan
2006
15 Jan
'06
6:34 p.m.
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 16:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
The difference in the audio is that we DO have a
choice, and in case
you've never done an A-B test, a megabyte a minute ogg is far less
tiresome to listen to than a megabyte a minute mp3. Also, I was in on
the negotiations if you could call it that, for an mp3 license for a
web music site several years ago. For a startup site, built with
linux on a 500 dollar machine they also built, the fees they wanted
just for them to be able to serve mp3's were so onerous they went ogg
only. They started out asking for $25k.
Hmm, interesting, that's good info. I wonder if that has gone up or
down as the patents get closer to expiration (decoding in 2011, encoding
in ~2015).
Lee