Anyone know of any vorbis players more or less the size of an MP3 player - something that will fit in a pocket? Or some projects to make one? I'd be willing to work on putting one together and port vorbis to some embedded processor. Any rough idea of what processor capabilities should be needed for the number crunching (is an FPU necessary, 16/32 bit, speed)? I realize the dev list might be a better forum for a question like this. Thanks, Matt <p><p><p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
> Anyone know of any vorbis players more or less the size of an MP3 player -> something that will fit in a pocket? Or some projects to make one? The only one I know is the Iomega HipZip, and then only with the 2.0 version of the iObjects Dadio operating system, not yet officially available from Iomega. And then it's got a couple of problems: it uses 40 MByte cartridges, only about half a hour of music each one, and a bit expensive too. But mostly, I am a little wary of the Iomega brand, having had terrible experiences with their hideous Ditto backup tapes, and the scarce reliability of Jaz disks. Ah, the good old days of Syquest... (that got bought by whom? Iomega, sigh) <p> > I'd be willing to work on putting one together and port vorbis to some > embedded processor. Any rough idea of what processor capabilities should > be needed for the number crunching (is an FPU necessary, 16/32 bit, > speed)? I realize the dev list might be a better forum for a question > like this. That would be really nice, and yes, definitely try the dev list. <p> -- "Mozilla will be around long after nobody can remember just quite what Internet Explorer actually used to be." AirLace on Slashdot Nicola Larosa - nico@tekNico.net <p><p><p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Matt Hodge wrote:> Anyone know of any vorbis players more or less the size of an MP3 player - > something that will fit in a pocket? Or some projects to make one? > > I'd be willing to work on putting one together and port vorbis to some > embedded processor. Any rough idea of what processor capabilities should > be needed for the number crunching (is an FPU necessary, 16/32 bit, > speed)? I realize the dev list might be a better forum for a question > like this.<p>I'm also making an embedded player, but not pocket-sized, not at least yet. My project will be an ordinary pentium PC motherboard, housed in a standard CD player-looking tabletop case. It will feature a CD-ROM drive, a CS4231 CODEC in an ISA slot, a power supply (self-made), 128x64 graphic LCD, keypad and a rotary encoder for song/track selection. The entire program will be run off a 256KB ROM in the BIOS socket. A 0.5 second bootup time comes as standard. It will play CDDA, Ogg and MP3. CPU will be a P100. As for a pocket player, I believe some 50 MFLOPS would be enough, 32-bit precision. Maybe some DSP would fit nicely? A compactflash card can provide storage. I would wait until the decoder is optimized enough so that a less powerful CPU can be used. -- - Antti Keyboard, n.: A device used to enter errors into a computer. <p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.