Objections to the OGG container format

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Submission + - Objections to the OGG container format (hardwarebug.org)

Submitted by E1ven on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @02:34PM

E1ven writes: The Ogg container format is being promoted by the Xiph Foundation for use with its Vorbis and Theora codecs. Unfortunately, a number of technical shortcomings in the format render it ill-suited to most, if not all, use cases. This article examines the most severe of these flaws.

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