Ogg Vorbis decoder chip a reality

LinuxGeek writes "The design is finished and announced for a low power Ogg Vorbis decoder. Hopefully we will see portable players very soon now."

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[u-238]

now let's make .ogg format music p2p propigation a reality

2 Many formats...2 Much Work

[felonious]

MP3, OGG, WMA, RA, etc., etc.

There are too many formats as it is and now we have players supporting different types. Some more than others. I know they all have their +/-'s but it's almost like the browser war. Our format can do this and sounds like this and is only this big, etc. Same old game. That goes for IM clients too, as well as, many more products out there.

I know this is about competition or as Microsoft spins it..."The ability to innovate" but it's hell for Joe Average who doesn't know what a hard drive is much less ogg, encode, decode, bitrate, etc. Mp3 and ogg are great formats but the Microsoft version of the mp3 formats so we should just concentrate on those and refining the quality and file size. The rest should be tossed so we can have the best players and quality formats that will improve exponentially.

Too many choices muddy the water and confuse consumers. We don't have the compatibility issues that frustrate software formats, i.e. ms word vs word perfect but having players out there that don't support all of the formats sucks. The newer players are getting better at this but I'm sure the do-it-all ,multi-function pda's only do so much. Oh well it's all a matter of taste...