Re: Octal in embedded system

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 ...