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Xiph.org Releases Free Fixed-Point Vorbis Decoder

Posted by michael on from the wave-of-the-future dept.

volsung writes "A lot of us want portable music players with Vorbis support, right? Well, Xiph.org has decided to help speed the process by releasing their integerized Vorbis decoder, named "Tremor," under a BSD-like license. Tremor is a Vorbis decoding library written for CPUs without floating point hardware, like most handheld devices use. It was previously a proprietary library--licensed by theKompany for their Sharp Zaurus player, among others--but now it's available for everyone to use. The release page also gives contact information for many of the popular hardware manufacturers. If you want Vorbis support in your hardware, now is the time to send some emails! (Also, please say thanks to the Xiph.org crew with a donation if you can.)"

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  1. fp by volsung · · Score: 1, Funny

    f1rst p0st for all my homiez in #vorbis!

    (I always wanted to try and fp my own story.)

  2. Re:How fast a microprocessor/controller??? by tomstdenis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why is this interesting? Hey moderators wake the heck up.

    An 8051 is a trivial old-school 8-bit MCU that doesn't even have a fast enough clockrate to handle the throughput let alone the data itself. Not to mention it has one 8-bit register, 128 bytes of ram and virtually no support for DSP math.

    Might as well have asked if you could implement it on a 4004 or something!

    Tom

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  3. Re:Nice, but I hope they stick around by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I done did my work then I got paided. I'm taking the little woman down to the roadhouse for some fancy folk eatin' tonight.

  4. Oooh, I'm cranky and haven't had my coffee yet by xiphmont · · Score: 4, Funny
    >> A lot of us want portable music players with Vorbis support, right?

    > Uh, no, seeing is that I haven't heard of Vorbis until now.

    Mmm, this begs one of a few responses:

    1) "Gee, you don't care. That's nice. You must be talking to hear yourself talk, then."

    2) "Really? I'll tell you what Ogg is if you explain to me why I was supposed to get all excited about Jessica Simpson."

    3) "[rolls eyes] Not need respond to rhetorical question, Grog."

    4) "Quick! There's another parade to rain on over there! Hurry up, you'll miss it!"

    Monty

    "All in good fun until someone loses an eye. Then we're talking serious fun."

  5. Re:uh, come again? by damiam · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait... let me get this straight. You read /., and you haven't heard of Vorbis?

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