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Technical Objections To the Ogg Container Format 370

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @03:25PM from the do-these-objections-matter-on-modern-hardware? dept.

A user 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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Re:already slashdotted ? (Score:5, Funny)

by heneon ( 570292 ) writes: on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @03:32PM (#31349192)

In related news, I know technical shortcomings in hosting an article on hardwarebug.org...

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Re:already slashdotted ? (Score:4, Funny)

by noidentity ( 188756 ) writes: on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @03:34PM (#31349204)

I don't see any comment and the website is already down. gg /.

Yes, but what format is the website in? I'm thinking something involving ashes.

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Re:already slashdotted ? (Score:5, Funny)

by Jurily ( 900488 ) writes: <jurily&gmail,com> on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @03:34PM (#31349212)

Wasn't us. We don't read the articles before posting.

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Re:Still better than AVI (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @03:37PM (#31349252)

You forgot the lack of general support. Definite win on the ideological front.

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Re:already slashdotted ? (Score:5, Funny)

by Yvan256 ( 722131 ) writes: on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @03:52PM (#31349422) Homepage Journal

There's articles? Since when?!

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Re:already slashdotted ? (Score:2, Funny)

by maxwell demon ( 590494 ) writes: on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @05:18PM (#31350538) Journal

There are articles at the time of submission. They disappear when the summary hits the front page.

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