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Lack of hardware supportLack of hardware supportPosted Jul 7, 2009 11:16 UTC (Tue) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)In reply to: Lack of hardware support by joedrew Parent article: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5
"Wrong - the iPod has hardware for decoding AAC, MP3 and H.264."
This 'hardware' will actually be a relatively general purpose DSP which is almost certainly reprogrammable to decode theora.
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Lack of hardware support Posted Jul 7, 2009 17:57 UTC (Tue) by joedrew (guest, #828) [Link]
> This 'hardware' will actually be a relatively general purpose DSP which is almost certainly reprogrammable to decode theora.
Nope - it's a specialized block of functionality added to Apple's Samsung-fabbed ASIC, the chip that also includes the ARM core.
Some iPods, the iPod video in particular, did include a DSP, but all recent ones are specialized hardware.
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