Re: [Advocate Play Ogg] MP2

[Alexandro Colorado]

Quoting "Andreas K. Foerster" <address@hidden>:

> Hello,
>
> does anybody know about the legal status of MP2?
> I mean MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2.
>
> I know that it is technically inferior to MP3 and even more so   
> compared to Ogg Vorbis.
> But there are still players that cannot handle Ogg Vorbis. But afaik  
>  every MP3-player can
> also play MP2. So might it be a "fallback solution" for some?
>
> --
> AKFoerster

You have to remember how does hardware mp3 player works. The decoder  
of mp3 is on a chip, that chip might present decoding options for  
other formats rather than mp3 and that is where you get the  
compatibility or not.

The other was to decode which is slower is if you have a software  
decoder of mp3 this will allow you to create an entity on the memory  
and the memory will do the decoding part.

To an extend I am impressed why we are not pushing the chip  
manufacturers to add machine-level decoding to ogg.