Re: Octal in embedded system

[Francis James Whittle]

Given the correct plugins and determination, octal could well become an 
Mp3 "system", although inclusion in an embedded device could become 
costly.  Certainly if you were considering _selling_ the device.

Also, AFAIK the GNU project prefers to avoid Mp3 (for various licensing 
reasons), and therefore implementation of Mp3 seems unlikely.  Of 
course, someone probably _could_ write the plugins, but they would not 
be a part of the main project.  A more likely file format (and higher 
quality, lower size, et c.) would be Ogg Vorbis, that the GNU project 
has been in support of for quite a while (see http://www.vorbis.com/ 
and http://www.xiph.org/).

And lastly, as I understand that is not the point of the Octal 
project.  Octal is more of a music synthesis metamachine or a mixing 
subsystem.  But the core is already in place (Although it looks like 
David wants to overhaul the engine into Objective-C to make traditional 
C-ites (I mean traditional ~ites not C~) like myself confused.), so if 
you want to make this system, read the API docs and code it.  No 
guarantees you'll get it done by next year though.

For a definite answer, you'll have to wait for David's response, of 
course.

Laters,
Francis Whittle

On 14/11/2002 07:11 Rahman Mohamud Faisal MOORABY wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am very new to Octal.  I'd like to know whether you can make octal 
> a MP3 system and include it in an embedded system (with linux as the 
> core system)
>
>
>
> Faisal Mooraby ...