iPod May Not Have The Horsepower For Ogg [updated]

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday June 5, 2004 @10:05AM 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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Re:The name is wrong by Whyrph · 2004-06-05 10:12 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
source ? by kayen_telva · 2004-06-05 10:15 · Score: 3, Funny

in other news, an ipod competitor says ipod not up to snuff. news at 11
title should read: by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-05 10:35 · Score: 3, Funny

"ipod may not care about ogg's cpu-hungry obscure geek-only format"