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Ogg Vorbis Gaining Industry Support

Posted by kdawson on from the chicken-or-the-ogg dept.

An anonymous reader writes "While Ogg Vorbis format has not gained much adoption in music sales and portable players, it is not an unsupported format in the industry. Toy manufacturers (e.g. speaking dolls), voice warning systems, and reactive audio devices exploit Ogg Vorbis for its good quality at small bit-rates. As a sign of this, VLSI Solution Oy has just announced VS1000, the first 16 bits DSP device for playing Ogg Vorbis on low-power and high-volume products. Earlier Ogg Vorbis chips use 32 bits for decoding, which consumes more energy than a 16-bit device does. See the Xiph wiki page for a list of Ogg Vorbis chips."

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  1. Re:Informal poll by cepler · · Score: 5, Funny

    An invading species of audio format sold by Ikea!

    No wonder it's not used in many audio players!

    Run away! Run away!!!! :-P

  2. Re:Informal poll by gbobeck · · Score: 5, Funny

    The noob looked like Scorpion with the ninja garb, but completely black.
    Actually, he looked more like Sub-Zero with the completely black ninja garb.
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