[vorbis] Vorbis for PlayStation

[Martin Griffiths]

> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Firelight Multimedia wrote:
> > I was hoping there were some more serious ps2 developers here that 
> > actually would find ogg vorbis beneficial for their games
> 
> How would it be beneficial for ps2 developers?
> > obviously  there are but it would be nice not to have to listen to 
> > opinions of people who havent even heard of ee-gcc.
> 
> then perhaps you should go elsewhere

I don't think that's particularly constructive. If you don't think
making vorbis accessible to a wider audience of developers is a good
idea then you should ask yourself 'what are YOU doing here'.. 

Anyway Firelight is correct in saying that a PS2 specific implementation
would yield a 2-3x speedup. Possibily 4 or 5 times with concurrency and
maybe some DMA. 
While its true there are Sony NDAs preventing a Vector Unit
implementation of Vorbis, a similar speedup could be obtained using the
MIPs Multimedia Extensions which are not Sony exclusive.  

> -Dan


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Martin Griffiths, Senior Programmer, Electronic Arts Ltd.

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