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Ogg Vorbis in Quicktime 6.0.2 24

elohim writes "The kind souls at QT Components have released an ogg vorbis component that allows playback of oggs in quicktime 6.0.2 and itunes. Hopefully we'll see ogg encoding integrated in itunes soon. This is a big step forward for vorbis fans! I can hardly wait to pick up a shiny, new powerbook and start blasting my oggs!" CT Yeah, this is a dupe. Whatever. It's the holidays- nothing else is happening ;)
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Ogg Vorbis in Quicktime 6.0.2

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  • So all those other reports of QT or iTunes having ogg were completely fabricated or dellusional?
    • The reports of Apple including ogg support in iTunes were "delusional", or more accurately just misinformed. What had actually happened was that the Quicktime Component that supports Ogg (not developed by Apple) had hooked in with iTunes as well. This update just makes the component compatible with the (as far as I know) latest version of Quicktime, 6.0.2.
  • by psyconaut ( 228947 ) on Monday December 30, 2002 @08:52AM (#4981012)
    Didn't we just have a story that claimed iTunes played Oggs.....that infact turned out to be based on the fact that Quicktime can now play Oggs.....and now we're told there's a Quicktime component to play Oggs?

    This is bOGGling my mind! ;)

    -psy
    • Re:I'm confused (Score:2, Informative)

      by elohim ( 512193 )
      qtcomponents is one of two projects to play oggs of which i'm aware. the other project is at http://illadvised.com/~jordy/ perhaps the previous story was about jordy's plugin. regardless, it's good to have a little competition. i think i submitted this story a day or two before this story appeared: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/25/ 1532236&mode=thread&tid=141
    • Re:I'm confused (Score:3, Informative)

      by numpins ( 590723 )

      You're right. We could play Ogg-Vorbis files in Quicktime and iTunes before, using a different component [illadvised.com].

      So the headline should read "Now _this_ component can do what you've been doing for a while."

  • ogg in ipod? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by dirtmerchant ( 162306 ) on Monday December 30, 2002 @09:25AM (#4981097) Homepage
    methinks (hopes) that this is in fact a laying of the groundwork to add an ogg component to ipod. the firmware is upgradable after all.
    • Just because an open source codec was released to add quicktime support, doesn't mean Apple is working to add iPod support. If anything, it means Apple probably ISN'T working on Ogg support. After all, these people wouldn't have done it themselves if Apple was going to do it.

      Unless iPods also have the ability to accept open source codecs...
  • two competing projects! this is always good to see in the community. are any of the authors reading these stories? care to comment on the strenghs/weaknesses of your own project and the competition? what kind of problems are you running into?
    • they're not really two projects. the quicktime component folks [sourceforge.net] had a message up on the front page for months that said that oggs didn't play under QT6. from what i can tell, this guy [sourceforge.net] came by, familiarized himself [sourceforge.net] with QuickTime over a weekend, and fixed the component, which is now here [illadvised.com].

      ps. if you have an ipod and would like to join a bunch of other people in trying to convince apple to support oggs in ipod hardware (probably in vain), there's a petition [apple.com]. it is theoretically possible via tremor [xiph.org], for you FP naysayers.

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