On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> wrote:> Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner at gmail.com> writes: > >> What are my best options for a portable player I can put opus on and >> have 10 hours of opus playback? > > I use a SanDisk Clip+ running Rockbox; these are available for around > ?25 refurbished. They get about 14h playing time on their internal > batteries. > > The newer SanDisk Clip Zip is also supported by Rockbox and is actually > a bit cheaper now, looking at current prices...Thanks for the recommendation. Are you saying there's no difference how long opus can be decoded on this vs vorbis?
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:38:16AM +0100, Carsten Mattner wrote:> Thanks for the recommendation. Are you saying there's no difference > how long opus can be decoded on this vs vorbis?I've certainly not done a rigorous comparison, but I've not noticed a difference in battery life between the two in practice. Thanks, -- Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> <http://offog.org/>
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> wrote:> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:38:16AM +0100, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> Thanks for the recommendation. Are you saying there's no difference >> how long opus can be decoded on this vs vorbis? > > I've certainly not done a rigorous comparison, but I've not noticed a > difference in battery life between the two in practice.So you guys are saying there's no special dsp or chips to look out for which in some devices decode mp3 bitstreams for power efficiency, not even the iDevices do it and the runtime should be good enough on a Sansa with rockbox. Is that right? If that's so I'll order one.