iPod May Not Have The Horsepower For Ogg [updated]

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Posted by timothy on Saturday June 05, 2004 @06:05PM from the maybe-it's-a-lack-of-a-gumption-bit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo has an interview with a Rio engineer who speculates that current iPods may not have enough CPU power and/or memory to decode Ogg. He concludes that the Minis might be able to do it, and the next generation iPods will certainly be able to. Of course, just because Apple can doesn't mean it will." Update: 06/06 04:44 GMT by T : csm writes with this rebuttal: "According to Monty from Xiph.org (author of the Tremor codec and OGG itself), it should very well be possible to run Ogg on older generation iPods."

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No call for...... (Score:2, Funny)

by zmollusc ( 763634 ) writes: on Saturday June 05, 2004 @06:07PM (#9346444)

a Beowulf cluster of ipods then?

Re:The name is wrong (Score:5, Funny)

by Whyrph ( 620050 ) writes: on Saturday June 05, 2004 @06:12PM (#9346476)

They could've said "Ogg Vorbis", but they wanted to avoid superflous vorbisity.

Yes, I know I spelled it wrong. And yes, you can beat me up. Here's the lunch money.

source ? (Score:3, Funny)

by kayen_telva ( 676872 ) writes: on Saturday June 05, 2004 @06:15PM (#9346491)

in other news, an ipod competitor says ipod not up to snuff. news at 11

Re:What is the downside of adding OGG support? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday June 05, 2004 @06:28PM (#9346569)

Yeah, they are probably already scared spitless by all the fanatical apple geeks.

Since when is a Beowulf cluster joke offtopic? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday June 05, 2004 @06:29PM (#9346570)

Has /. been taken over by pod people? What happend to you guys? Where would we be today without beowulf cluster jokes and Soviet Russia jokes?

title should read: (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday June 05, 2004 @06:35PM (#9346599)

"ipod may not care about ogg's cpu-hungry obscure geek-only format"

Re:Huh? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday June 05, 2004 @07:13PM (#9346783)

A beefy arm isn't enough, you also need wings (it's a wing-a-ling iPod) and consummate V's. CONSUMMATE!

vapours (Score:3, Funny)

by crackshoe ( 751995 ) writes: on Saturday June 05, 2004 @07:14PM (#9346785)

Heaven forbid that a device can't necesarily do something it wasn't designed to do. lordy lordy, i may catch a vapor.

Neuros Audio (Score:3, Funny)

by daserver ( 524964 ) writes: on Saturday June 05, 2004 @08:42PM (#9347471) Homepage

Thank god I bought a Neuros [neurosaudio.com] so I don't have to care about this :)

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No call for...... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:The name is wrong (Score:5, Funny)

source ? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:What is the downside of adding OGG support? (Score:1, Funny)

Since when is a Beowulf cluster joke offtopic? (Score:2, Funny)

title should read: (Score:3, Funny)

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Neuros Audio (Score:3, Funny)

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