[vorbis-dev] Ogg Media Player

[Dan Conti]

It's the portalplayer chip, which has two arm7 cores in one chip. It's
almost certainly doing software decoding, otherwise it wouldn't need
such an expensive processor.

-Dan

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> From: owner-vorbis-dev at xiph.org [mailto:owner-vorbis-dev at xiph.org]On
> Behalf Of Segher Boessenkool
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:50 AM
> To: vorbis-dev at xiph.org
> Subject: Re: [vorbis-dev] Ogg Media Player
> 
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> 
> "David A. Gatwood" wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> It's not a second core; it's the only core.
> 
> Segher
> 
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