[Gllug] Next geeky purchase

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Sun Aug 3 11:25:28 UTC 2003


On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:21:03PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> Although not documented, it does appear from the source that it now
> supports ogg. At least, it's calling ogg123 and ogginfo. The device
> itself isn't responsible for decoding anyway - that's done on the
> "server" (ie. PC) and uncompressed sound is shunted over the network.

Actually that doesn't seem to be true. The device can decode MP3
natively, and other formats are "transcoded" into MP3 using lame.

The code basically does:

ogg123 < file | lame [some options]

Rich.

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