Archimago Wrote: > Wow, just got my Squeezebox 3 right before the weekend and have been > playing with it since. Love it, and thanks for allowing me to "free > the music"... Slimserver 6.2.1 worked like a charm on the XP box used, > no crashes so far. > > A few questions to the knowledgeable around features I would love to > see: > > 1. How much firmware space is already used for the MP3, WAV, FLAC > decoding engine on the SB? Is there much room to add other decoders? > 2. I would personally love to see native OGG decoding since this is > open-source and readily available... > 3. How about AAC native decoding like FAAD2? Does the 250MHz processor > have enough "umph" to pull this off? (I assume it must be able to if > the iPod can do it!) > 4. 96/24 - got some wonderful sounding tracks on my system in stereo > 96kHz/24-bit that's waiting to be exploited on the hi-fi downstairs! > > Again, great product already but would LOVE to see the hardware fully > exploited! > > Regards, > Arch...
It's not a matter of code space or CPU speed, just that we are at a point of vastly diminishing returns now for adding new codecs. WMA was needed for DRM and streaming radio support, but beyond that there is not much benefit to native Ogg etc. That's not to say we'll never implement it, just that it's a pretty low priority compared to all the other projects we have going on. You may be surprised that porting codecs to an embedded DSP is a not a trivial task at all. Again, not to say it won't happen - just not real soon. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18399 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
