Editing Theora (section)

===Playback performance===
There was an [[open-source software|open-source]] [[VHDL]] code base for a hardware Theora decoder in development.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora-fpga/ | publisher = Xiph.Org Foundation | title = Xiph Subversion repository: trunk/theora-fpga | access-date =10 August 2009 }}</ref>{{update inline|date=June 2021}} It began as a 2006 [[Google]] [[Summer of Code]] project, and it has been developed on both the [[Nios II]] and [[LEON]] processors.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://wiki.xiph.org/Theora_Hardware | title = XiphWiki: Theora Hardware | access-date =10 August 2009 | publisher = Xiph.Org Foundation }}</ref> However, there are currently no Theora decoder chips in production, and [[portable media player]]s, [[smartphone]]s and similar devices with limited computing power rely on such chips to provide efficient playback.