[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] OGG support

[From: Koen Kooi]

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Martin Grimme wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 30.10.2005, 11:10 +0000 schrieb Clemens Eisserer:
> 
>>Wow, really great someone is really doing it finally, although I can't
>>really underand why they did not include it in the default
>>distribution - ogg is THE next generation audio compression format.
>>I am looking excited foreward to test the first version!
> 
> 
> I think the reason why Nokia didn't support Ogg until now was that
> the standard Ogg decoder heavily relies on floating point operations
> and is thus way too slow on the Nokia 770. The alternative integer-only
> decoder Tremor doesn't have a gstreamer plugin yet.


Nonsense, gst-plugin-ivorbis has been around for a while now. The only
problem is that the gstreamer people forget to apply small API tweaks
every time gstreamer gets improved. Cristian has mentioned
(http://blogs.gnome.org/view/uraeus/2005/10/28/0) that they will port
ivorbis to gstreamer 0.9.

regards,

Koen

> 
> 
> 
>>Personally I do not care which project is used as basis as long as:
>>- The package does not use too much flash space when installed (< 3mb or so)
>>- Can handle playlists
>>- Would be great to have: volume management using the dedicated buttons ;-)
> 
> 
> I have a player like this in mind. :)
> But I also wouldn't mind Nokia porting the Tremor decoder to the DSP. ;)
> 
> 
> Regards, Martin
> 
> 
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