Ogg Devices, was: [lug] [Fwd: Adios, Internet Radio]

Hugh Brown hugh at vecna.com
Mon Apr 15 12:41:50 MDT 2002


If the file sharing systems were to be inundated with ogg files then it
might get more attention from the hardware folks.

Hugh


On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 15:52, Scott A. Herod wrote:
> Unfortunately, you've summed it up pretty well.  Unless there
> is hardware support, ogg will never become anything but a novelty.
> (Shades of betamax.)
> 
> The MPEG 4 book that I have laying around states it pretty nicely,
> patent holders have incentive to get their technology adopted and
> will make deals with hardware manufacturers.
> 
> Scott
> 
> hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
> > 
> > Another problem is that I don't think that anyone has written a good
> > implementation of ogg for DSPs, yet.  I did a web search a little
> > while ago and there appear to have been a couple of abortive starts,
> > but no finished product.
> > 
> > All these portable products use DSPs like the ones from TI.  Last time
> > I talked with TI they hadn't heard of ogg, so I doubt if we'll see
> > support from TI anytime soon.
> > 
> > --Michael
> >
> _______________________________________________





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