Double dare ya, Fedora! And your art sucks!

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:26:48 -0800, Per Bjornsson wrote:

> Tremor is the now BSD-licensed _fixed-point_ Ogg Vorbis decoder,
> specifically geared toward processors which don't have any
> floating-point capabilities. The units that do play Ogg Vorbis are not
> necessarily any more powerful than the others

>From what I've read decoding Vorbis takes more power than MP3. Maybe
not much, but there usually are no cycles to spare in a player.

And, of course, you can buy cheap MP3 decoder chips, which do all the
heavy lifting for you, so your main CPU can be quite flimsy. I do not
know whether there are commercially available ogg decoder chips.