On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Rob Leslie wrote:
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 01:57 PM, Joe Drew wrote:
I remember you mentioning that you might implement a sort of mad-ogg which was a integer-only ogg vorbis decoder, but you were stymied by the lack of a proper specification for the ogg vorbis format.
Now that Tremor has been released, do you still plan on making such a project?
In part the release of Tremor has alleviated the need for a new implementation. While I do still think an alternative may be useful, I haven't yet decided whether I will write one.
What has people's experience been with Tremor? Is there anything lacking that a new implementation might be able to address and overcome?
I don't think the current Tremor CVS is lacking in any way to justify a competing implementation.
The initial Tremor release was rather suboptimal in some ways, but all the changes I've produced to address them are now merged in the CVS. There is also a low-mem branch for reduced memory footprint to the cost of slightly higher CPU usage.
In short, unless someone has a brilliant idea to implement Ogg Vorbis decoding with totally different algorithms, it's probably more productive to improve on the current Tremor code IMHO.
Nicolas