[svlug] Re: Program/Script to Turn OGGs into MP3s?

[Mike Castle]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 10:05:17PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Quoting David E. Fox, from the post of Sun, 13 Apr:
> > 
> > Archos Jukebox (mp3 recorder/player) looks interesting but no ogg
> > support, at least not from the description.
> 
> it's got a very weak controller, and all mpeg processing is done on a
> dedicated chip. When Ogg has hardware implementations, we'll all be
> happier... AFAIR even the Empeg (RIP) used specialized hardware for the
> decoding, thus no ogg.

Actually, someone in my family has an Archos, and I was looking into seeing
if it can support OGG, and it was exactly this architecture that I had in
mind when I made my post.  There is a project called Rockbox
(rockbox.haxx.se) that aims at implementing another UI for the Archos, but
they only have 4k to work with.

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