Java Sound does not provide ogg/vorbis decoding for playback. As a competitor to the mp3 format, ogg is based on non-patented technology, and libraries are under a BSD-style license, which would allow them to be included with Java Sound, or to be used by the Java Sound.

Ogg can be used for efficient transfer of audio data to applications and applets; streaming audio for web radios or streaming video; pay-per-listen systems.

Including ogg support in Java Sound will promote this new technology and help both ogg and Java Sound applications to gain more deployments. Supporting free and open standards fits well into the Java language.

Moreover, if Java Sound provides native ogg de/encoding, JMF could use it, too, and fix bug 4499904: "RFE: Ogg Vorbis and Tarkin support for JMF" automatically.


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Posted Date : 2006-09-28 13:47:53.0

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  xxxxx@xxxxx   2002-04-18
	Ogg vorbis should be supported in Java 2. See also 4479349: "RFE: Add MP3 support to Java Sound".

Capability to encode and decode multimedia using a open 
standard thru java is verymuch required. Ogg is a good 
standard & is high quality. Please Support this in Java.

Yes support for as many sound protocols and standards 
should be there as possible in java. That should include 
support for both proprietery formats like mp3 as well as open 
formats like Ogg vorbis. If there are licensing issues with 
proprietery formats then open formats should be supported in 
any case. Ogg Vorbis is a open format and hence should be 
supported.

This would be an excellent addition to the Java Sound 
package, especially if it included a pure java encoder - 
obviously not as fast as native, but might just be fast enough 
for many applications.

Ogg support would be great!

Something like OGG or MP3 is absolutely essential for 
applets where bandwidth is an issue.  

How about closing this and put all votes to BUG Nr. 4479349?

Ups wrong number *g*
The correct ID must of course be: 4499904

Sorry :-)

I think it is critical that OGG support (preferably including encoding) be included in the JRE, not as a separate download as with the MP3 plugin.

It would be a very good idea to include suport for ogg.

Ogg support could give this free format a big (deserved) boost. To circumvent legal/license problems, native bindings would be a good start, so that Java Sound provides ogg support if the ogg library is installed locally.

ogg decoding would be a nice feature !

Have you seen http://www.javazoom.net/vorbisspi/vorbisspi.html ?
Maybe it can be used as a reference. =)

Of course ogg support (both for encoding and decoding) should be included in java!!

+1 For Encoding and Decoding + Encoding on the fly should be provided. When is this expected to be fixed?
Vijay 

we need it

Now that Java is licensed under GPL, Ogg Vorbis support would be a great addition to it

I agree - this would be extremely useful.

Ogg support would be extremely valuable.

Could anyone post work volunteers could do to move this along?

ogg vorbis decoder exists as a Java Sound / SPI implementation: http://www.javazoom.net/vorbisspi/vorbisspi.html

Proof of concept code for a pure-java vorbis encoder exists at two places:
http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis-java/
and
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=jvorbisenc

Would be nice of course if some volunteer wrapped code like this into a nice SPI package...!