[vorbis-dev] Ogg Media Player

[David A. Gatwood]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

> "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.

According to several sources, the PP5002B is based on dual ARM7 cores.
However, PortalPlayer has taken down all information on that processor, so
I can't confirm this.

<p>Later,
David

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