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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iPod has more HP than Amiga, and Amiga can do Ogg by chaoskitty · 2004-06-05 12:06 · Score: 5, Interesting

Amiga programmers (yes, I know Amiga's dead (long live Amiga!)) can get Ogg Vorbis playback in real time on a 50 MHz m68060. They can also get >10 fps out of the Quake 2 engine on an '060, too. Considering that the ARM is quite a bit faster, it can certainly be done if someone puts in the effort.
John Klos
Running Amigas for more than a decade.