[vorbis-dev] Ogg Media Player

David A. Gatwood dgatwood at gatwood.net
Mon Jan 14 10:55:49 PST 2002



On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, John Abreau wrote:

> Has anyone examined Apple's iPod to see how hackable its software might
> be?  I've gotten the impression it's tied closely to iTunes; does it use
> a normal hardware mp3 decoder, or is it doing the decoding in software? 

It uses a second ARM7 core dedicated to mp3 decoding.

<p>Later,
David

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