Ogg and hardware MPEG-4 players

[InfoCynic]

Alright, this question has been bugging me for a while. And maybe no one knows the answer, but I can ask anyway.

What are the chances that the upcoming hardware MP4 players will handle, say, a CD with an OGM on it containing an XViD AVI and a VBR MP3 stream?

Now what if it's a Vorbis audio stream in there instead of MP3?

Multiple audio tracks? Subtitles?

I'm a big OGM fan for things I'm not burning, but it would be nice to know whether it's "safe" to use for these upcoming players.

[avih]

afaik, the tobias ogg implementation is not yet verified/confirmed by ogg ppl.

IF there'll be support (which i doubt will happen in the 1st wave of mpeg4 stand alones) i'd guess it'll be ogg/ogm with mpeg4 and vorbis.

if i'll have to guess what's gonna be supported 1st, i'd say mpeg4 compliant (divx/xvid) with mp3 (maybe vbr).

but it could also be that the stand alone players will actually be a pc-in-a-box running linux or some other os, in which case, most of the possibilities of current linux users will be available.

but that's just a wild guess ;) noting to build on.... just wait and enjoy your time in the meantime ;)

[Emp3r0r]

i've heard of a new media chip indevelopment by TI IIRC. The chip is supposed to be programmable for a number of different uses. Perhaps we will see ogm playing on one of these in the future.