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From: | Sean Robinson |
Subject: | [playogg-discuss] What We Really Need is Hardware |
Date: | Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:15:28 -0700 |
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What we need is a Free Hardware decoder/encoder chipset for Ogg Vorbis and Theora. After all, encoding/decoding in dedicated hardware is much faster and less computationally and battery costly than doing the equivalent in software on a generic processor. Work in this direction has been made. http://wiki.xiph.org/Theora_Hardware http://wiki.xiph.org/Vorbis_Hardware However there is no finished, mature standard chipset that all manufacturers could be using.
I propose that we: -establish such a standard Ogg chipset; -introduce it to manufacturers that already support Ogg as a better choice; -heavily promote it to other hardware manufacturers; -have users request it from all manufacturers; -introduce subsidizing to make using the chipset more attractive.
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