[maemo-developers] ?Ogg Vorbis support hw-accelerated

[From: Jan Knutar]

On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Gunter Ohrner wrote:

> Does the OGG decoder utilise the CPU's media acceleration features
> (NEON), or is decoding performed in software only, probably draining
>  the battery pretty quick?

I'd consider a decoder using NEON as being "software" too ;-)

> What battery run times do you get if continuously playing some MP3s
>  and OGG Vorbis, in comparison?

Tuomas Kulve did some excellent tests:

http://tuomas.kulve.fi/blog/2009/11/07/n900-battery-duration-ogg-vs-mp3/