if I were The Guys at Xiph, I would read Rob's comments and try to process that data in as positive a fashion as possible

No, disregard my comments and we'll put together a post mortem for the Xiph guys once Pearl is shipping. I think they know the issues for themselves, though - at least some of the source comments imply that they do.

One of our guys has a partially implemented Vorbis decoder that he has been writing in his spare time, which might be more suited to embedded architectures as long as certain encoding restrictions are recognised.

Rob