Nokia and OGG Vorbis: Friendship at last? ;)
 

I was very surprised today to read this comment in bugzilla (regarding OGG Vorbis support out of the box):

What's going on here? Nokia and OGG Vorbis? Am I the only one who rememers Nokia's fear of submarine patents in this codec? What will we see next? :D

Anyway, makes me happy. Because the bug's fixed for Maemo... and because Nokia seems to have changed its mind on OGG Vorbis. (Just wait, next time you switch on a Maemo device, the Nokia hands animation will be a Theora file...)

Re: Nokia and OGG Vorbis: Friendship at last? ;)
 

Progress! Yes! :)

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Wow, it's actually very surprising to hear something like that from Nokia.

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You left out Flac as well that bug is FIXED as well :)

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I find it weird it won't just be integrated into Maemo 5...Kinda weird to have to wait for a new OS for some new feature :p

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"Fixed in Harmattan"

Now doesn't that sound somewhat familiar? ;)

It's a good example that year-long pressure on a bug report will finally lead to a progress in a big company like Nokia. I would've never thought that this could happen with Ogg Vorbis support.

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They must have solved all the legal issues. I'd like to know on which basis - this is useful to the whole floss world.

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lets see them utilize ogg's native gapless ability out of the box and we'll talk

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Je je
Actually, what I'd like to see, is some kind of dsp task that could be used in the N8X0. Current vorbis decoding throught cpu sucks.

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Yes. :D

OTOH, how much use would a "fixed in Fremantle/PR1.2" be if we already have Ogg Vorbis support via Extras?

My N900 already has Ogg Vorbis support now and Nokia including it in an upcoming version of Fremantle wouldn't improve anything for me. - So in this particular case, "Fixed in Harmattan" is really the only option. For Fremantle I'd consider it a waste of resources.