@mvanloon wrote:
Wait a minute. The changelog for mt-daapd from 14 April 2005 says that the ivorbis-tools package is a patched version of vorbis-tools and that firefly may revert back to the official vorbis-tools release.
vorbis-tools is available as a mipsel package from the nslu2 feed.
Does anyone (Ron?) know whether the ivorbis-tools package can be reverted to the official release (yet)? That would make life considerably easier…
I know all the status of those, I contributed the ivorbis-tools package. 🙂
For small boxes like the slug (and the mss) without a FPU, it can’t use the stock vorbis decoder — it decodes at something like 4x realtime. So you can’t transcode ogg.
The ivorbis-tools package uses the “tremor” integer decoder (no floating point) so it can transcode in realtime. My thought was that there was no real reason for the vorbis-tools package, since the ivorbis-tools package worked as well (and better because it could actually *play* ogg files), so there was no reason to have vorbis-tools. But I never pushed it hard upstream so it ended up staying a separate package. No loss, really.
It might be that I compiled the vorbis-tools package with ARM optimization, which make it not run on mipsel.
I’ll try and build an ivorbis-tools package without the arm optimizations, and we’ll see if it’s fast enough to transcode oggs.
— Ron