[Advocacy] persuading mobile phone manufacturers to implement Vorbis support

Steve Lhomme steve.lhomme at free.fr
Tue May 29 01:42:44 PDT 2007


Ian Malone wrote:
> Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> What could be preventing
>>> manufacturers to implement it?
>>
>> According to
>> http://xiph.org/minutes/2006/10/200610_meeting.txt
>>
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> [...]
>> <xiphmont> Anyway, manufacturers *all* wanted vorbis... until the ones
>> not using ARM found out they needed a different DSP to do it.
>> <xiphmont> Very few managed to make it fit.
>> [...]
> 
> However several Symbian based phones can run Vorbis
> through third party software, this isn't the obstacle
> in those cases.

Symbian phones run on ARM. So tremor can be used on ARM (and it's used 
in CorePlayer on that platform).

Steve


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