[vorbis] wow! and what about h/w players for vorbis files?

[MARK JAMES HETHERINGTON]

At my work we have this tiny credit card 
sized 386 board, it has an expansion bus, 
and one of the expanson modules the 
electronics people have come up with is an 
mp3 board. The 386 takes compact flash 
disks, and just sends mp3 data to the mp3 
board. 
 
The board has an mp3-decoder chip. You send 
it mp3 frames, it outputs audio. I think 
the device is very nifty, with the mp3 
board attached it takes up about the space 
of two matchboxes. OF course since the mp3 
player chip is expecting mp3 frames, it 
can't decode ogg. I think that is why most 
hardware players are mp3 only, there are a 
few cheap mp3-decoder on a chip type 
devices around now, and very few that 
decode it in software using a "real" cpu. 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Moz <lists at moz.co.nz> 
Date: Monday, July 15, 2002 12:30 pm 
Subject: RE: [vorbis] wow! and what about 
h/w players for vorbis files? 
 
> > yup. i agree with dan. haven't 
researched the facts, but most  
> have a 
> > laptop already. it's just not as 
portable as some of the h/w mp3 
> > players. 
>  
> What I've been doing is converting my 
ogg's to 64kbit mono mp3 for 
> my Diva mp3 player, which gives me about 
9 hours music on a 256MB 
> compact flash card, at acceptable quality 
for cheap headphones. Since 
> my camera also takes CF, I tend to start 
trips with both cards full 
> of music, listen to the 64MB card out of 
the camera at the start, and 
> steadily delete music files to make room 
for photos. By the end of  
> the trip I'm down to the 32MB in the 
player, but I have heaps of  
> photos of my trip. I cycle tour for 
several weeks at a time, so  
> this is a useful way to go. And it all 
runs on AA rechargeables. 
> (10 hours play off a single cell in the 
Diva!) 
>  
> I'm mostly concerned that ogg might need 
more CPU or ROM than most 
> players currently have, which might make 
it hard to build a player 
> at the current standard. But I'd be more 
than willing to put up  
> with a mere 5 hours play time off a 
single AA battery if I could 
> play 48kbits ogg files instead of 64kbits 
mp3. 
>  
> Moz 
>  
>  
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