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iPod May Not Have The Horsepower For Ogg [updated]
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."
a Beowulf cluster of ipods then?
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
They could've said "Ogg Vorbis", but they wanted to avoid superflous vorbisity.
Yes, I know I spelled it wrong. And yes, you can beat me up. Here's the lunch money.
in other news, an ipod competitor says ipod not up to snuff. news at 11
Yeah, they are probably already scared spitless by all the fanatical apple geeks.
Has /. been taken over by pod people? What happend to you guys? Where would we be today without beowulf cluster jokes and Soviet Russia jokes?
"ipod may not care about ogg's cpu-hungry obscure geek-only format"
A beefy arm isn't enough, you also need wings (it's a wing-a-ling iPod) and consummate V's. CONSUMMATE!
Heaven forbid that a device can't necesarily do something it wasn't designed to do. lordy lordy, i may catch a vapor.
Don't worry - its just stigmata. Pass me a napkin and don't you dare tell my mother.
Thank god I bought a Neuros so I don't have to care about this :)