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

[Scott A. Herod]

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
>