That's sort of why I split up the thread. The request for a viewer and issues related to the DJVU format are (mostly) separate issues.Hydaral wrote:This only concerns the encoding though, not the viewing.Wikipedia wrote:The ownership rights to the commercial development of the encoding software have been transferred to different companies over the years, including AT&T, LizardTech, Celartem and Caminova.
I can't find anything that LibreOffice is going to support DJVU.Hydaral wrote:I think it will probably be up to LibreOffice to show the general public what this format can do.
Hydaral might be referring to criticism of Microsoft's WMA marketing and their embrace, extend, extinguish strategy.carbonize wrote:I disagree with the Microsoft reference. WMA is actually a pretty decent audio format and Silverlight is better than Flash for many things.
Sometimes, yes. What you're talking about hardware decoders. If a processor doesn't have to run to decode a data source and instead its a dedicated chip, that saves electricity. One exists (http://wiki.xiph.org/Vorbis_Hardware), but obviously not all devices that support ogg have an ogg decoder built in.carbonize wrote:As to why most portable audio players do not support OGG Vorbis that is partly down to power usage. I can't remember exactly why, possibly the catalogue size, but OGG files require more power to play.
Strictly speaking, many devices don't even have an MP3 decoder. Instead, processor companies have been trying to integrate this capability, so hopefully ogg encoding will be integrated into the processor the way MP3 has been going. It may have already happened, I don't really know.