[whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for <audio>

Nils Dagsson Moskopp nils-dagsson-moskopp at dieweltistgarnichtso.net
Fri Jul 17 15:52:52 PDT 2009


Am Donnerstag, den 16.07.2009, 11:58 +0200 schrieb Arve Bersvendsen:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:23:40 +0200, Nils Dagsson Moskopp  
> <nils-dagsson-moskopp at dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote:
> 
> > Am Mittwoch, den 15.07.2009, 19:16 -0500 schrieb Adam Shannon:
> >
> >> It has been tried but Apple will not implement it due to hardware
> >> limitations.
> >
> > As if. I somehow recall that a few years ago, a Linux Distribution on
> > Ipod did Vorbis (and Doom, incidentally - that was the original reason
> > for me to put it on said device).
> >
> > <http://ipodlinux.org/> seems to be dead, though.
> 
> The project you're looking for is Rockbox, http://rockbox.org/ -- afaik,  
> it does vorbis decoding in software, and had (has?) a battery lifetime  
> half of what the stock ipod firmware had.

Actually, I believe Rockbox is a separate (similar) project.

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Nils Dagsson Moskopp
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