* Rob Leslie (rob@mars.org) wrote:
Hi John,
Just curious if you or anyone you may know of has plans to do a FP version of the Vorbis CODEC? They claim to have a FP version but it is for ARM only and is not public domain.
Funny you should ask; I am in the middle of writing an article about why this is currently impossible. Until a complete specification for Vorbis is published, any independent implementation would have to be reverse-engineered, and would necessarily be inferior to the existing reference implementation, which is still evolving.
This is the reason I haven't written a fixed-point Vorbis implementation, and the reason I can't recommend any of the current ones either.
Wow, is this intentionally being withheld by Xiph so they can sell their fixed-point decoder without competition, or is a specification forthcoming?
I should have my article finished soon with more details.
Please announce it once you have!
Joshua