Guest duchski Posted November 3, 2004 Report Posted November 3, 2004 All, Smartphones ship with Window Media (WMA) already installed either in version 9 or 10. The list of WMA supported formats is not verly long and it misses some of the most interesting ones from the perspective of limited storage that Smartphone offers (currently 512 or 1GB depending on card format). Recent independent test show that WMA loses to both Ogg Vorbis and MPC in terms of quality and compression ratio... Please see the test results below: http://www.everwicked.com/forums/showthrea...=&threadid=2490 I noticed that there is an ogg codec available for WMA under win32 that http://tobias.everwicked.com/oggds.htm I wonder if there is any way to make WMA9 or 10 Mobile to do the same.... Cna the same codec be used? What registry settings have to modified to allow that? Having Ogg Vorbis on the phone would drastically improve audio capabilities of the headset as 64K ogg sound MUCH better than 128k MP3 whihc translates roughly to 50% space savings.... Unfortunately I ma not that computer savvy to figure this out by myself but I ma hoping to find an enthusiast that would check that option under Windows Mobile.... Please post replies to his forum and/or email me directly at yahoo/duchski PS. There is an ogg vorbis port to smartphones out there symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net unfrotunately it only works under Symbian (NOKIA/SONY/SIEMENS) PPS. Anybody who never heard of ogg should check out ogg vorbis website http://www.worbis.com Ogg is a royalty-free format, originally developed for Linux and it beats MP3 in quality and compression hands-down... I haven't seen any test that would favor MP3, even in the best LAME incarnation, over Ogg... Take listen yourself... Cheers, Stefan
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