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To: bob who wrote (10768)	2/5/2000 11:31:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 18366

On multiple codecs: sure, somebody else has done it: Microsoft. There are multiple video and audio codecs in the Microsoft Media Player. It is a plug-in architecture. I suspect the only reason that the MP3 players only do MP3 is because they are focusing on the music market. There isn't any need for multiple codecs for the music market. You use MP3, or perhaps you find something better, but in any case, there just isn't a need for more than one. If you want to do have a device that is going to be used for both music and voice, then you will want two (but probably no more than 2) codecs, as the characteristics that make a codec good for voice or music are quite different. Anybody designing such a device is going to know that they have to do that. And they will. They don't need to go to EDIG for it. This is more a matter of marketing than anything else. So far, nobody has marketed a device used for both purposes. So, it's not a matter of why hasn't anybody been ABLE to do it - it's not a big deal. It's just that so far, nobody has WANTED to.