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==================================================================== [5] Audio cores add Ogg Vorbis support
Tensilica has added an Ogg Vorbis decoder for its popular Xtensa HiFi 2 audio engine and Diamond 330HiFi processor core. The Xtensa HiFi 2 audio engine is the most popular audio processor core on the market, designed into devices ranging from cellular phone handsets to prosumer audio. This year, Tensilica's customers will ship tens of millions of products using the Xtensa HiFi audio engine.
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Ian
That is quite interesting as one of the reasons for Ogg not to be supported in small consumer devices like those mentioned was that traditionally it was a lot harder to do on smaller devices due to the lack of a dedicated chipset, and doing it in software required a reasonable amount of processing power.
Good news if you want to rip your own music to a portable player, but I wonder how relevant ogg-vorbis will be long term with everyone trying to shove us on to DRM formats :-(
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 12:01, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Good news if you want to rip your own music to a portable player, but I wonder how relevant ogg-vorbis will be long term with everyone trying to shove us on to DRM formats :-(
Extremely relevant to those of us at the thin edge of the wedge who won't be playing ball with DRM, but more importantly, relevant to the huge groundswell of computer users that will be inconvenienced into avoiding DRM.
At least, I choose to believe there will be such a groundswell. We live in hope.
Regards,
Marcus.
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