[geeks] MP3s on ARM chips

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:37:51AM -0500, nimitz at ns1.nimitzbrood.com wrote:

> Bah.  We don't need no stinking proprietary stuff.  We just need
> someone good at base-level coding.  Here's what I was talking about
> before: 

I believe the second link I posted wasn't proprietary.  However, if I
was mistaken, there are other options like MAD
(http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/).
 
> http://members.aol.com/xanathus/mpegdec/about.htm

That looks pretty proprietary to me.  I fail to see source code.
 
> This thing works on almost any old Mac I have regardless of speed.
> Think the developer would be interested in doing a port? 

I would imagine the developer would have better things to do with his
time that to port assembly code to an incompatible platform that already
has several good, fast enough MP3 players.  Granted, if you have an ARM7
running at 30mhz, things will be tight, but more likely you have a
faster chip running at a faster clock rate.  Specifically, in the case
of the Webpal that started all this talk, an ARM9 (I believe) running at
80mhz.

However, that link does make me start to wonder about the chances of
getting him to port it to a Sun 3/80 might be...