theora - Jun 2008 - Portable Theora Player

I would like to find a portable device to watch Theora-encoded videos
while commuting on the bus to/from work. In a perfect world it would
be similiar in size to the iPhone or some such other device (i.e., not
so big that I can't shove it into my pocket when done.)

I have been searching on and off for a couple of days now with no
success. I can find lots of things for Vorbis. When I turn my
attention to Theora I cannot find any portable devices. Surely they
must must exist?

I am happy to update http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/TheoraHardware
with anything found.

On 6/10/08, Jason Self <jason.self at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Surely they must exist?
Er, no.  Even though Theora is quite less CPU intensive than most
video formats out there, which would make it ideal for the portable
market the adoption rate has been unfortunately small.  I reckon if
Opera starts shipping with built-in Theora support like it has been
mentioned on several occasions, you'll see quite a bunch of devices
perfectly capable of playback.

Aside that, users can (and should) contact corporations like Samsung
and Apple to support Theora natively.  That's all we can do.

-Ivo