>Are there any sound cards coming out that will have hardware
>acceleration for running SAOL?  That would be pretty darned nifty, to
>put it mildly.
>
>Sean Costello


I'm not aware of any companies that have allocated specific
resources to do this.  I have had enthusiastic discussion with
a number of prominent soundcard and DSP manufacturers.

Given the prevelence of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 hardware decoding
solutions today, I think it's very likely that there will
be hardware accelerators for MPEG-4, including SAOL, within
two years.

Best,

 -- Eric

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