I just bought an Oracom 200M 256Mb player. Mandrake 9.1 detected it automatically and magically added an entry to my fstab. Not only does it sound absolutely fantastic, it was only £80 and it says "Diverse OS support for Windows, Mac and Linux" on the front of the box in big letters. No OGG though, but that was too much to hope for.
Matt
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 21:40, Matt Parker wrote:
I just bought an Oracom 200M 256Mb player. Mandrake 9.1 detected it automatically and magically added an entry to my fstab. Not only does it sound absolutely fantastic, it was only £80 and it says "Diverse OS support for Windows, Mac and Linux" on the front of the box in big letters.
I imagine it's just comes up as a piece of USB flash or what-not. I don't understand why more MP3 players don't do this :-/
No OGG though, but that was too much to hope for.
Another example of when 'free' is more expensive. Ogg Vorbis is computationally much more expensive and less trivial than MP3. Also, there are fewer chips out there that do it in hardware.
B.
On 2003-11-26 21:42:08 +0000 Rob Kendrick alug-main@nun.org.uk wrote:
No OGG though, but that was too much to hope for.
Another example of when 'free' is more expensive. Ogg Vorbis is computationally much more expensive and less trivial than MP3. Also, there are fewer chips out there that do it in hardware.
Unless something has changed, Vorbis is computationally a little cheaper to decode, but requires more working memory because you have to keep updating the probability model as you go along. MDCT against FFT on the computation, if I remember rightly. There are fewer chips doing it yet, though, which is the biggest reason it's not seen in more places.
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