[wellylug] ogg handheld players

[Brenda Wallace]

if you try the google search for creative+mp3+players+that+play+oggs
there's a result that explains reflashing some creative players to
support oggs. 
I didn't read more than the first couple lines..



On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 16:49, Cameron Hart wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:12, Donald Gordon wrote:
> > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:53:42 +1300 Cameron Hart <sexy at cam.rebel.net.nz> 
> wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of any handheld/portable devices that can play oggs?
> >
> > Some of the iRiver CD/MP3 things can be (IIRC) upgraded to play Ogg
> > audio.
> 
> Not yet they can't but it looks like they are developing this. They plan for 
> the firmware to be available at the end of december.
> 
> I've had an exhaustive search now, and it seems there are a couple of ogg-cd 
> players but they are not available outside of korea or japan. There are a few 
> HDD players but these are still quite expensive, or at least the ones that 
> support ogg's are anyway. Hardware type mp3 players (flash memory type 
> players) are pretty much in the same arena as the mp3 cd players, iRiver plan 
> to release updated firmware for their products that will support ogg's, 
> although some of the lower end players will miss out due to not powerful 
> enough hardware.
> 
> If you want to read more, this page has some good references: 
> http://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisHardware
> 
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> Cameron
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