[vorbis] Vorbis suitable for PDAs?

[Monty]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 07:56:26PM +0100, Joel Forsberg wrote:
> As Linux is starting to apperar on handhelds the tought of having a portable Vorbis-player is everpresent in my mind. 
> 
> However, one things worries me...
> 
> A user running linux on his (ipaq?) PDA reported skipping and halted playback using mpeg123. Apparently this was caused by lack of processor resources because mpeg123 was programmed for a FPU-enabled CPU. (Thus performing very poor on a StrongArm)
> 
> Is this the cause for Vorbis too? 

Our reference encoder/decoder currently utilizes the FPU.  There's no
reason that one can't either a) implement their own Vorbis code that
does not or b) modify the reference source to be integer-only (and at
least one company has done this, for ARM7).

At the immediate moment, we're not planning to do this ourselves;
there's too much other core work to be done to take on this project as
well (at least, at this time).

Monty

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