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Ogg Vorbis Hardware?

Posted by Cliff on from the jumping-off-the-MP3-bandwagon dept.

GuNgA-DiN asks: "As more and more companies start moving towards proprietary codecs like Liquid Audio or Microsoft Media or other SDMI "approved" music formats, what are the alternatives? I've checked out the Ogg Vorbis site. I'm now using the Ogg format and checking out the little bit of content that is currently available. I would eventually like to switch to Ogg and convert all my music that is now in MP3 format. Does anyone know if a hardware project has been started that can play back .ogg files? I haven't heard of anything being developed... and just wondered if other /. readers had any info?"

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  1. Doesn't make sense to convert existing mp3s by mlinksva · · Score: 2
    Both are lossy formats, the quality of your mp3->vorbis files will necessarily be lower than the "original" mp3. Do however use vorbis for new encoding.

    I don't know anything about sound hardware or any that may support vorbis.

    I really replied to this so I could say "cool name Mr. Gunga-Din!" (Gunga Din seems to be the name of a Kipling poem and a film, though I first heard of it as the name of a band long time ago Sonic Youth drummer Jim Sclavunos).

  2. Yes. by jbridge21 · · Score: 2

    I don't have any links, but I remember several projects shown on here over the years that essentially had pluggable audio formats -- they had like a StrongARM 233 or whatnot, so that future codecs (which require more decode power) could be implemented fairly easily.

    K. whores, feel free to find and post links.
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  3. Ha! Wrong on all counts! Vorbis Rocks! by xiphmont · · Score: 2

    Stop using top to measure light duty application CPU usage; it's not very accurate (easily off by more than 15% due to undersampling problems).

    The reference decoder (in beta 3, due tomorrow) is currently about half the speed of the fastest mp3 decoder we've benched against (and equal to a few), so we're not that far behind after only spending about two days on optimization.

    As for hardware, *I* own a Vorbis handheld player (Iomega HipZip :-) ... and I can't wait until the firmware version with Vorbis support is finally marked off as 'ready for release to public'.

    I have to get back to the beta 3 release. See y'all later...

    Monty