[vorbis-dev] Porting Vorbis lib on Ti DSP ? How to ?

[Dan Conti]

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> From: owner-vorbis-dev at xiph.org [mailto:owner-vorbis-dev at xiph.org]On
> Behalf Of Monty
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 2:17 PM
> To: vorbis-dev at xiph.org
> Subject: Re: [vorbis-dev] Porting Vorbis lib on Ti DSP ? How to ?
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> [snip]
> I'll be frank; Fullplay opened up this code because it's not useful
> and they can't fix it.

Come now monty.

We have the resources to work on it here, but what we've found is that
there isn't a lot of commercial interest in vorbis; at least, people are
not interested in paying money for it. As a freebie, sure, people will
throw it in. So the motive was to detach ourselves from it; we put it on
a web site, i let people know about it, and occaisonally if people have
questions i do my best to give them a hand. But in general it makes no
sense for us to keep code that we can't sell boxed up; the future of
vorbis as a codec relies on free distribution, otherwise it will have
difficulty with market penetration.

Initially it was IP; we had this integerized vorbis decoder which nobody
else had. Things are different now, over the past year the focus has
shifted from decoders to encoders (as evidenced by the proliferation of
the 'jukebox'). The lack of an integerized vorbis encoder ended up even
further reducing the value of an integerized decoder for us.

> We have an integer/embeddable decoder we're happy to sell you a dev
> kit for. Contact our CEO Emmett Plant for information for now, but a
> press release should be out in the next few days. 

Keyword: sell.

In all honesty, best of luck with this monty; hopefully the market is
more open to paying for your integerized decoder than they were in
paying for ours.

-Dan

p.s. sorry if this is OT, replies off-list please, thanks.
 
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