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iPod May Not Have The Horsepower For Ogg [updated]

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the maybe-it's-a-lack-of-a-gumption-bit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo has an interview with a Rio engineer who speculates that current iPods may not have enough CPU power and/or memory to decode Ogg. He concludes that the Minis might be able to do it, and the next generation iPods will certainly be able to. Of course, just because Apple can doesn't mean it will." Update: 06/06 04:44 GMT by T : csm writes with this rebuttal: "According to Monty from Xiph.org (author of the Tremor codec and OGG itself), it should very well be possible to run Ogg on older generation iPods."

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  1. I know I always say this, but by chegosaurus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Can't you let this ogg thing go and either:

    a) buy a Rio and STFU, or
    b) use mp3 and STFU.

  2. Re:Huh? by genixia · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, this guy is so full of shit that he designed and produced the first in-car mp3 player before Apple had even heard of music compression.

    I submit to you, Sir, that you are the one full of shit.

  3. Re:Huh? by geoffspear · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's amazing that Apple joined the MPEG group before it had heard of music compression, dumbass.

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