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Re:MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to VP8 Video... by kenjackson on Friday February 11, 2011 @03:11PM (#2207944)
This is the same reason that most video games these days use Ogg Vorbis for their music and sounds, because they save a lot of costs by using an unencumbered audio format.

Are you sure about that? I'm sure a lot do, but I think a lot use WMA on Windows and XBox. I believe the encoder and decoder are free for use when developing games for those platforms. I think a different codec is then used for PS3 and Wii. I've certainly seen Vorbis used, but I think WMA is still used a fair bit more. I'd love to see evidence either way though.

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Re:MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to VP8 Video... by nuclear_eclipse on Friday February 11, 2011 @03:16PM (#2207960)
You are correct on consoles, as those are generally restricted by the manufacturer to using codecs that are burned into the hardware. But almost all of the latest PC games that I have played are using Ogg Vorbis for the audio.
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