[tremor] portable player

[timmy brolin]

Unpredictable resource requirements is a real problem.
Memory usage is the most important issue since RAM is expensive, CPU horsepower is relatively inexpensive, so hardware can be designed with good enough CPU margins.
What's the current approximate RAM consumption? (the total of work ram, code and const tables).
const tables and code can of course be put in flash memory, but that's at a big performance penalty.

I wounder... what's highest on the ogg-geek hardware wishlist?
A tiny flash based portable ogg player?
A larger HDD based portable ogg player/jukebox?
A CDROM based portable ogg player?
A ogg player to put in the car?

I think I'd like a flash based player, how about the rest of you?

<p>-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Durand <jd at interstellar.com>
To: tremor at xiph.org
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:09:15 -0800
Subject: Re: [tremor] portable player

At 07:03 AM 12/27/2002, you wrote:
>I was going to buy a portable player, and as most of my music is encoded 
>using
>vobris I started searching for a player capable of playing vobris. As far 
>as I
>understand no player support ogg files, but if you can update firmware it
>should be easy to add suport; more after tremor was done. So I was looking 
>for
>a good player with firmware update support. I am considering buying "DAP
>Jukebox 2, 10 GB, USB 2.0". Any advice?
>
>thanks

I was going to use Tremor for a small (not portable) self contained player 
for specialized audio files.  The problem I ran into is Tremor has no fixed 
specifications for memory or processor speeds, the program that does the 
compressing determines that.  That makes it REALLY hard to put just enough 
memory and a just fast enough processor in a small device.  As soon as we 
built PC boards, somebody would write a compression program that needed 
more memory and/or a faster processor.  Looks like we're back to paying 
royalties to use MP3, at least that is predictable.

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Durand Interstellar, Inc.
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fax:  +1 408 356-4659
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