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This is a list of hardware of all categories, from mobile players to chipsets, that support Ogg Vorbis.
This is a list of hardware of all categories, from chipsets to ready-to-use products, that support Ogg [[Vorbis]].


There are currently more than 40 different companies offering a total of more than a hundred products that support decoding Ogg Vorbis. Most likely you'll find a product that meets your demands, if not, come back next week. New products are added on a weekly basis, as many companies are working to support it on their hardware.
Hardware support status for Ogg Vorbis is relatively good, you can choose between a huge number of mobile flash players, many HDD based players and a respectable number of Hi-Fi components. More than 50 different companies offer a total of more than a hundred products for virtually every application, there is even a knife that can play Ogg Vorbis now ;-). If you can't find a suitable player come back next week -- new products are added on a weekly basis, as many companies are working to support Vorbis on their hardware.


If you know of any other hardware or projects, please add them to the list. More hardware info can be found at [http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/hardware.html vorbis hardware page].
If you know of any hardware or projects that are not yet mentioned here, please add them to the list.


== Consumer products ==
== Consumer products ==


These players support Ogg Vorbis either out of the box or after a firmware upgrade.
The following music players support Ogg Vorbis either out of the box or after a firmware upgrade:


* [[PortablePlayers]]: mobile players
* [[PortablePlayers|Portable players (mobile players)]]:
* [[StaticPlayers]]: installed players
:[[PortablePlayers/Flash|Flash Memory Storage]]
:[[PortablePlayers/Harddisk|Harddisk Storage]]
:[[PortablePlayers/Others#CD.2FDVD_Audio_Players|CD/DVD Audio Players]]
:[[PortablePlayers/Others#Mobile_Phones|Mobile Phones]]
:[[PortablePlayers/Others#Others|Others]]
* [[StaticPlayers|Static players (installed players)]]:
:[[StaticPlayers#Hi-Fi_components|Hi-Fi components]]
:[[StaticPlayers#Car_Audio|Car Audio]]
:[[StaticPlayers#Media_Storage|Media Storage]]


For hardware that is able to run third-party software (such as PDAs), please visit [[VorbisSoftwarePlayers]].
For hardware that is able to run third-party software (such as PDAs and video game consoles), please visit [[VorbisSoftwarePlayers]].


== Rumored products ==
== Non-consumer products ==


These manufacturers/products are rumored to support "Ogg Vorbis" in the future.
This is Vorbis in Silicon, meaning chips from which actual consumer products can be built.


* [http://www.diasonic.com/ Diasonic] DHD-1000
;[http://www.finearch.com/english FineArch]: FineArch, Inc. developed a hardware core and control software for decoding Vorbis.  This technology can be integrated into portable players or cell phones, and since it runs at only 12MHz, it uses very little battery power. It supports files up to 64Kb/s, but could be scaled to 16MHz and 128Kb/s, at the expense of battery life.  For more information, see FineArch’s [http://www.finearch.com/english/news/pr_20030715/pr_20030715.htm press release].
:Looks like Diasonic is planning to introduce a portable 2GB harddrive player with USB host function and colour display. [http://www.dapreview.net/comment.php?comment.news.434 Source]


* [http://www.dioneer.com/ Dioneer]
;[http://www.mcslogic.com/ MCS Logic]: MCS Logic creates single chip decoders that can play Ogg Vorbis. They supply the Vorbis decoding chips for Havin and Freemax.
:Their new players due out in July or August will support Ogg Vorbis playback out of the box, according to [http://www.dt.co.kr/print.html?gisaid=2003042402012267701001 <em>The Digital Times</em>] (Korean).


* [http://www.nextway.co.kr/ Nextway]
;[http://oggbox.nathandumont.com/ OggBox]: An open hardware project aiming for a small sized Ogg Vorbis hardware platform (based on ARM Cortex M3 and VS1053b/VS8053 DSP).
:Announced at IFA 2003 in Berlin, Nextway will be selling portables with USB host capabilities. It will have no memory of its own, but will use external memory/external readers to access smartmedia cards, memory sticks, compact flash, external HDDs, and more. Retail price is planned to be around 50,000 KRW, or approx. 42 USD. Vorbis firmware is planned to be released in November, according to [http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/20030917/080300000020030917145246K9.html <em>Yohnap News Agency</em>] (Korean) and [http://www.nextway.co.kr/etc/hostplayer.html a Nextway news article] (Korean).


* [http://www.mpman.com/ mpman]
;[http://oggonachip.sourceforge.net/ Ogg On A Chip]: A hardware/software implementation with a good report showing how to make FPGAs and the like to decode Vorbis streams.
:Mpman will be releasing a 1.5Gb 1&#x2033; HDD portable that can play Vorbis. There&#x2019;s no mention of it on the website, but an external [http://www.dapreview.net/comment.php?comment.news.54 preview] is available. Looks like this Mpman is the same what Nextway distributes as DCube NHD-150D. It's questionable if they proceed in that matter, since [http://www.reigncom.com/ Reigncom], the owner of Iriver, [http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200407/06/200407062315464039900090609061.html obtained] Mpman. of the FreeMax FW-960.


* [http://www.apple.com/ipod/ Apple's] iPod
;[http://www.sigmatel.com/ SigmaTel]: SigmaTel makes several chips which support Ogg Vorbis decoding. After this quote years ago, we knew it was only a matter of time:
:Independently of Apple, [http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/ some people] have [http://www.uclinux.org/ µClinux] (Linux for CPUs without MMUs) running on this.  Right now, they are decoding Vorbis at 80% realtime, with hope for improvement.
<blockquote>"<i>I talked to Deborah Clark, product marketing engineer for audio chipmaker Sigmatel out of Austin, Tex. She is the company's expert in audio decoders. She says there is a growing base of support for Ogg Vorbis. "We can't keep paying these high licensing fees for this. Manufacturers would flock to something that's free." </i></blockquote>
:from a 2000 [http://www.forbes.com/2000/09/18/dvorak_index.html column in Forbes]


* [http://www.frontierlabs.com/ Frontier Labs]
:Some STMP3500-based devices supports Ogg Vorbis, but there are no notes about this on SigmaTel-website.
:Frontier Labs are independently investigating the possibility of Ogg Vorbis support on the Nex IIe. Details are not known at the moment. The [http://www.frontierlabs.com/NEXIA.html Nex iA] is advertised as supporting &#x201c;emerging formats such as Ogg Vorbis through firmware upgrades&#x201d;. At present, the available firmware upgrades do not provide Vorbis support.<br>
:Deep in the german knowledgebase you can find:<blockquote>Moderator schrieb am 11-08-2004:<i>"Eine Firmware, die Ogg-Vorbis unterstützt, konnte leider nicht umgesetzt werden, da sich in Tests heraus gestellt hat, dass der im Nex IA+ verbaute Prozessor zu schwach ist, um diesen Codec zu bewältigen."</i></blockquote> Which means that FL discovered that the NEX's CPU is too weak for Ogg Vorbis.


* [http://www.pontis.de/site_e/produkte/pl_600_e.htm Pontis] SP600
:SigmaTel introduces the STMP3600 with support for Ogg Vorbis, MP3, AAC, WMA and more.[http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2005-10/artikel-5493211.asp]
:Pontis announced in the middle of 2002 that they would &#x2018;soon&#x2019; release a firmware upgrade to allow their SP600 portable player to play Vorbis files. Unfortunately, after 18 months of silence, Pontis finally decided (in November 2003) that a firmware upgrade for the SP600 was not possible, due to CPU and memory constraints.


== Non-consumer products ==
;[http://www.tamulsite.co.kr Tamul Multimedia]: Tamul Multimedia manufactures decoding chips for Samsung.  They claim they have Ogg Vorbis decoding firmware, according to [http://www.dt.co.kr/print.html?gisaid=2003031002011367704002 <em>The Digital Times</em>] (Korean).


This is Vorbis in Silicon, meaning chips from which actual consumer products can be built.
;[http://www.telechips.com Telechips]: Telechips has developed the TCC72x, a single chip decoder that can play Vorbis. The TCC72x series is based on on an ARM940T core, and it is used widely in Korea for players such as Iops or MobiBlu.
 
* [http://oggonachip.sourceforge.net/ Ogg On A Chip]
:A hardware/software implementation with a good report showing how to make FPGAs and the like to decode Vorbis streams.


* [http://www.finearch.com/english FineArch]
;[http://www.vlsi.fi/ VLSI Solution Oy]: VLSI provides two Ogg Vorbis capable chips.
:FineArch, Inc. developed a hardware core and control software for decoding Vorbis.  This technology can be integrated into portable players or cell phones, and since it runs at only 12MHz, it uses very little battery power.  It supports files up to 64Kb/s, but could be scaled to 16MHz and 128Kb/s, at the expense of battery life.  For more information, see FineArch&#x2019;s [http://www.finearch.com/english/news/pr_20030715/pr_20030715.htm press release].


* [http://www.mcslogic.com/ MCS Logic]
:[http://www.vlsi.fi/en/products/vs1000.shtml VS1000] is an Ogg Vorbis decoder and controller chip based on a 16-bit DSP.
:MCS Logic creates single chip decoders that can play Ogg Vorbis. They supply the Vorbis decoding chips for Havin and Freemax.


* [http://www.telechips.com Telechips]
:[http://www.vlsi.fi/en/products/vs1053.shtml VS1053] is a low-power "MP3 decoder" chip based on the same DSP. What makes the IC unique is that it can both decode and [http://www.vlsi.fi/en/support/software/vs10xxapplications.html encode] Ogg Vorbis files. There are several different quality settings to choose from varying from narrowband speech to high-quality stereo music.
:Telechips has developed the TCC72x, a single chip decoder that can play Vorbis. The TCC72x series is based on on an ARM940T core, and it is used widely in Korea for players such as Iops or MobiBlu.


* [http://www.tamulsite.co.kr Tamul Multimedia]
== See also ==
:Tamul Multimedia manufactures decoding chips for Samsung.  They claim they have Ogg Vorbis decoding firmware, according to [http://www.dt.co.kr/print.html?gisaid=2003031002011367704002 <em>The Digital Times</em>] (Korean).
* [[Theora Hardware]]


* [http://www.sigmatel.com/ SigmaTel]
[[Category:Vorbis]]
:SigmaTel hasn't announced anything that we've heard, but we do like this quote:
<blockquote>"<i>I talked to Deborah Clark, product marketing engineer for audio chipmaker Sigmatel out of Austin, Tex. She is the company's expert in audio decoders. She says there is a growing base of support for Ogg Vorbis. "We can't keep paying these high licensing fees for this. Manufacturers would flock to something that's free." </i></blockquote>
:from a 2000 [http://www.forbes.com/2000/09/18/dvorak_index.html column in Forbes]

Latest revision as of 01:17, 2 September 2012

This is a list of hardware of all categories, from chipsets to ready-to-use products, that support Ogg Vorbis.

Hardware support status for Ogg Vorbis is relatively good, you can choose between a huge number of mobile flash players, many HDD based players and a respectable number of Hi-Fi components. More than 50 different companies offer a total of more than a hundred products for virtually every application, there is even a knife that can play Ogg Vorbis now ;-). If you can't find a suitable player come back next week -- new products are added on a weekly basis, as many companies are working to support Vorbis on their hardware.

If you know of any hardware or projects that are not yet mentioned here, please add them to the list.

Consumer products

The following music players support Ogg Vorbis either out of the box or after a firmware upgrade:

Flash Memory Storage
Harddisk Storage
CD/DVD Audio Players
Mobile Phones
Others
Hi-Fi components
Car Audio
Media Storage

For hardware that is able to run third-party software (such as PDAs and video game consoles), please visit VorbisSoftwarePlayers.

Non-consumer products

This is Vorbis in Silicon, meaning chips from which actual consumer products can be built.

FineArch
FineArch, Inc. developed a hardware core and control software for decoding Vorbis. This technology can be integrated into portable players or cell phones, and since it runs at only 12MHz, it uses very little battery power. It supports files up to 64Kb/s, but could be scaled to 16MHz and 128Kb/s, at the expense of battery life. For more information, see FineArch’s press release.
MCS Logic
MCS Logic creates single chip decoders that can play Ogg Vorbis. They supply the Vorbis decoding chips for Havin and Freemax.
OggBox
An open hardware project aiming for a small sized Ogg Vorbis hardware platform (based on ARM Cortex M3 and VS1053b/VS8053 DSP).
Ogg On A Chip
A hardware/software implementation with a good report showing how to make FPGAs and the like to decode Vorbis streams.
SigmaTel
SigmaTel makes several chips which support Ogg Vorbis decoding. After this quote years ago, we knew it was only a matter of time:

"I talked to Deborah Clark, product marketing engineer for audio chipmaker Sigmatel out of Austin, Tex. She is the company's expert in audio decoders. She says there is a growing base of support for Ogg Vorbis. "We can't keep paying these high licensing fees for this. Manufacturers would flock to something that's free."

from a 2000 column in Forbes
Some STMP3500-based devices supports Ogg Vorbis, but there are no notes about this on SigmaTel-website.
SigmaTel introduces the STMP3600 with support for Ogg Vorbis, MP3, AAC, WMA and more.[1]
Tamul Multimedia
Tamul Multimedia manufactures decoding chips for Samsung. They claim they have Ogg Vorbis decoding firmware, according to The Digital Times (Korean).
Telechips
Telechips has developed the TCC72x, a single chip decoder that can play Vorbis. The TCC72x series is based on on an ARM940T core, and it is used widely in Korea for players such as Iops or MobiBlu.
VLSI Solution Oy
VLSI provides two Ogg Vorbis capable chips.
VS1000 is an Ogg Vorbis decoder and controller chip based on a 16-bit DSP.
VS1053 is a low-power "MP3 decoder" chip based on the same DSP. What makes the IC unique is that it can both decode and encode Ogg Vorbis files. There are several different quality settings to choose from varying from narrowband speech to high-quality stereo music.

See also