[vorbis] DIY hardware player -> Vorbis??

[Rob Leslie]

Matt and Karin Lawson <lawson at qns.com> wrote:
> I ran across this link from slashdot and it looks like it has a lot of
> potential:
> 
> http://www.pjrc.com/tech/mp3/
> 
> It is a built-it-yourself kit project for an mp3 player.  Although there
> are still some things that need to be refined, this could be one path to
> getting a cheap Vorbis hardware player.  As I said, it is currently set
> up for mp3 files, but the firmware is supposedly open-source, soooo....

Keep in mind the firmware on that board is not doing the MP3 decoding; the
decoder is actually implemented in a hardware chip:

    http://www.pjrc.com/store/sta013_sop32.html

> Is anyone interested in writing the necessary software to upgrade this
> puppy to become a Vorbis player?  This would be very cool, because even
> if future players support Vorbis, this would hopefully be a good way to
> get one cheaply.  Comments?

I don't know whether this board could support a software decoder, but even if
it can't, I'm still interested in writing a fixed-point Vorbis decoder to be
able to do something similar.

I never got a response, though, to my previous message... where are the Vorbis
specs?

Cheers,


-- 
Rob Leslie
rob at mars.org

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