[SWLUG] OGG on Sony W810i phone?

Tue Jul 4 16:09:29 UTC 2006

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 16:56 +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote:
> Dave Cridland wrote:
> > For bizarre reasons I have yet to understand, mobile phone people are 
> > not yet shipping Ogg or Vorbis support. Perhaps it's more CPU 
> > intensive to decode than MP3, or something - mobile phone people are 
> > universally paranoid of anything touching battery life.
> 
>  From what I understand (and it's not a lot :) is that OGG required 
> floating-point operations to decode correctly. MP3 (and IIRC, ACC and 
> WMA) don't - they just need integer maths.

> I think there has been a lot of move to create an integer-only decoder 
> for OGG's, but I don't know how successfully this was/has been.

its existed for years aparently, date in the files is 2002.
http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/Tremor/