[GLUG-chat] Re: OT mp3 players for the car *flame*

["Bongani Hlope" <BonganiH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vivian Gervais
> 
> 

8< unnecessary flame war

> 
> Getting back to MP3 vs ogg, i say... the company's should make
concerted
> efforts to now produce CD/MP3/OGG (or CD/OGG/MP3) players for cars as
a
> standard. lets face it, MP3 has licencing issues, but its as damm easy
to
> rip to MP3 as it is to OGG, the only diffirence is that one is not the
> other, and the other is open source.
> 

IIRC the reason that ogg is not widely used is consumer products is that
their embedded CPU suck at doing floating point calculations, which
is/was needed to decode ogg files. The last tile I looked up on this,
the ogg guys were working on reducing the usage of floating points. I
don't know where it all ended.

> Frankly, i prefer ogg because of the whole open source thingy, much
like i
> choose to use my linux distro as apposed to win.
> 
> Unfortunately i have to 'encode' ogg to mp3 if i wanted to make a new
mp3
> cd for my car, but i get that same chilly feeling when ever i have to
boot
> out of linux to go play something i want to play in windows.
> 
> As far as ogg players go, you can use vlc in windows or linux to play
ogg,
> (as a matter of fact, you cannot play mp3's under open Suse) but sure
as
> rain, u can play ogg's. You can also use Jukebox, umm, Amarok, umm,
etc
> etc etc...
> 
> My christmas wish is a CD/OGG/MP3 player for cars... its my wish...
mine
> all mine... not an opinion.
> 
> Cheers



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