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[Bert Freudenberg <bert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16.03.2010, at 02:02, John Maloney wrote:
> 
> Hi, Chris.
> 
> Re:
>> Yes, just Ogg Theora for movies from Record.  Uncompressed would use a
>> huge amount of disk space, and other codecs have patent restrictions.
> 
> Makes sense for movies. Does Record let you make an audio-only recording?
> 
> Re:
>>> If not, is there a program that can convert an ogg file to a
>>> format Scratch can read?
>> 
>> There are, but we could not ship any of them with the XO, because we
>> aren't willing to ship patent-encumbered codecs.  (If there are any
>> formats Scratch supports that aren't patent-encumbered, let me know
>> and we'll try to find a converter to use.)
> 
> Understood. Ogg is the best unencumbered codec for compressed sound. But uncompressed WAV, AIF, and AU files are not encumbered, and are common formats on the internet, so I thought you might possibly have a way to export one of those formats.
> 
> Scratch has it's own sound recorder, so this is probably not a big deal...
> 
> 	-- John
> 

FWIW, the Squeak VM on the XO includes an OggPlugin with both Vorbis and Speex codecs.

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