Restricted modules in Ubuntu

[Kristian Rink]

Chris Puttick schrieb:
[...]
>> Ogg, alas, will not play in either of my phones or my Creative Labs
>> jukebox or in iTunes on my Mac or Windows laptop or indeed in many
>> places. And no, my Creative Zen won't run Rockbox, I've looked.
[...]
> Ogg plays very nicely in all good(*) media software portable media
> player devices (mine's a Meizu, available more or less anywhere). And
> ones manufactured by sane companies. Why not include a decoder for a
> codec with no licence fee? 

Because customers don't ask for it, it seems. For what I have seen so far,
there are few companies out there actually providing OGG support with their
devices - I know Samsung does as I just bought one of their devices a couple
of days ago right for this reason: Because it does support OGG. Given one
already owns a given device, OGG indeed might not be a viable solution.

Overally, I like the discussion in [1], this seems pretty close to it: It's
not supported because no one asks for it. Maybe bugging hardware vendors and
explicitely asking for OGG support, eventually stating to make a different
buying decision if they don't, seems a more promising way, given enough
people doing so?

Cheers,
K.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Creative-why-no-OGG-Vorbis/forum/Fx3CX19HGRR31WT/Tx2H5DW78YC2HB5/1?_encoding=UTF8&asin=B000UV4EU6

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