[olug] $10 / 2GB MP3 player for Linux

[Luke -Jr]

On Thursday 03 July 2008, Adam Lassek wrote:
> That is such a total strawman. Portable media devices use firmware chips to
> decode audio, and so are limited by their hardware in what formats they
> support. In contrast, PCs are the opposite: it is the software which
> supports the hardware. This is the entire reason why you can run an
> unsupported operating system, even though the manufacturer didn't
> explicitly design the hardware to support it.

Sorry, firmware is software, not hardware.
I don't know of any specialized hardware MP3 decoder chips, either.

/me goes back to porting Linux to his cable modem... ;p