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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."

2 of 399 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No call for...... by LBArrettAnderson · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does OOG have much more memory requirements than other formats ?

    Yes.

    If so, why ?

    because that's the way they made it.

  2. Re:Huh? by CountBrass · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There are 3rd party add-ons that allow you to record voice on your iPod. Check any recent Mac magazine for the ads or even the Apple store.

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