[Tremor] feasibility info

[Michael Smith]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/1/08, Markintosh <markintosh at email.it> wrote:
>> I'd like to implement an encoder and a decoder of the Vorbis format using a
>> fixed-point hardware. Can someone tell me if I can use Tremor to perform
>> this task?
>
> Tremor is a decoder.  You'd have to write the encoder yourself.
> Writing an encoder, though, is easier than a full-spec compliant
> decoder, so you have more than half the job done already.

Writing a reasonably good quality encoder is probably a much larger
task than writing a decoder.

Tremor is a good starting point regardless - it's much better than nothing.

Mike