[Vorbis] Stand alone media player supporting Ogg ?

[E. Isaac Price]

These appliance devices are computers with the OS written on to a disk on 
chip.

I read an article about someone that had "hacked" a linksys wireless router 
to find out it was a stripped down linux server.  He enhanced the internal 
OS to add additional software and increase the performance of the device.

I don't have the technical expertise to do this, but I am confident someone 
out there does.  It is probably very doable to add this functionality 
yourself to one of those existing appliances.

-Isaac

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tor-Einar Jarnbjo" <Tor-Einar at Jarnbjo.de>
To: "Kent Barbour" <keoh at hotmail.com>
Cc: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Vorbis] Stand alone media player supporting Ogg ?


> Kent Barbour wrote:
>
>> 1. Anyone know of an Ogg playing media player, similar to the Netgear 
>> MP101 or the Voyetra AudioTron-100 (neither of which play ogg) ?
>> I need something that will display and play/stream ogg audio files stored 
>> on the PC, without having to use a tv as the viewer. I looked on the wiki 
>> but didn't find anything. If they don't use a tv they don't play ogg, so 
>> far anyway.
>
> I've been thinking about this for a while and one feasible solution would 
> be to have some software running on a PC, doing real time Vorbis->WAV 
> convertion and exposing the WAV files on a network share. Most devices can 
> play uncompressed WAV files and the necessary bandwith is rarely an issue 
> in local networks.
>
>> 2. And while I'm here. . .What's involved for one of these companies like 
>> Netgear or Linksys to include Ogg as a supported format? Is it just an 
>> addition to the firmware? Is it that much of an additional expense?
>> How do we go about getting them to support it?
>
>
> Why not send them an email and ask for it? One guess is that the 
> additional development costs are too high.
>
> Tor
>
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