[Vorbis] Question about Ogg files Structure

[Monty]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 03:41:49PM +0200, Franck Charlemagne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I bought an iRiver HP-120 which can read ogg files (via a hard drive).
> Many people experiment that reading ogg file decrease the baterry charge
> more quickly than with mp3 at the same bitrate.
>
> The only raisonnable reason of that mysterious thing is that reading ogg
> file is not sequential onto hard drive, and the hard drive head must
> move more than for reading an mp3 at the same quality, and that consume
> more energy.
>
>
> Right ?

Nope.  Oggs stream, just like mp3.  The big difference is that Ogg is
younger, and its decoding operations have not been as heavily
optimized as mp3's.  Most of the hardware players out there today are
still substantially running on code I wrote for example purposes :-)

Monty