[KLUG Members] iPod & Linux.

[Greg Mason]

>
> I don't know anything about iPods.  Do they only play MP3s?  I've  
> encoded most
> of my stuff in ogg so I don't have to putter around trying to get  
> MP3s to play (I don't buy MP3s I just rip what I buy on media).   
> And I've been too lazy to
> get around to buying a player yet.

They will play OGG if you've got iPod Linux installed. iPod Linux  
will play MP3s, OGGs and somewhat AAC. Since they had to reverse  
engineer everything, they don't really use the audio decoding chips  
in the iPod, just software. And the iPod doesn't have that great of a  
CPU (cuz it doesn't need it). It was quite the feat for the iPod  
Linux guys to get MP3s and/or OGGs to play in real-time.

-Greg