Hardware that supports Ogg Vorbis

[Matt Ivie]

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1. Re: Hardware that supports Ogg Vorbis (Aaron S. Hawley)
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:49:56 -0400
Subject: Re: [playogg-discuss] Hardware that supports Ogg Vorbis
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Folks should volunteer with FSF. There's no reason not to contribute
to the campaigns against Microsoft and Apple and still promote
unencumbered media formats. Obviously, knowledgeable people are
needed to offer specific alternatives in these discussions.

More to your original question - Ogg Vorbis support overall is actually pretty widespread,
but abysmally unadvertised. Many devices that actually support it don't even mention it
anywhere (e.g. lots of Android-based devices. ALL Android devices support Ogg Vorbis
audio for example, but a lot of them only mention mp3, aac, wma, etc. in their specifications.)

An easy thing to do is probably to update the xiph.org Wiki. There's
a lot of good historical information on Ogg hardware, it just needs an
update. If the FSF gets back to these campaigns in the future, it
will likely be relying on that Wiki for the campaign.
aaron

Aaron

Specifically do you have some suggestions of how to volunteer with the
FSF?

I think it's good to spread awareness of the things Microsoft and Apple
are doing but it is a bit of an uphill battle trying to appeal to people
that are users of those companies' products. It seems like there should
be a more productive way to spread awareness of the ideals of the FSF.
I'm not trying to be critical but rather to be forward thinking. I don't
have any direct ideas but I do get frustrated with the difficulties of
what Free Software users face.

I do like your suggestion of helping to update the xiph.org wiki. That's
something that people can easily help with.

Matt