Rob, Thanks for the quick response. Point well taken. Certainly would like to get a copy of your article when complete.
Thanks,
-john
Rob Leslie 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.
I should have my article finished soon with more details.
-rob