chill;607525 Wrote: > Cool. But I guess software decoding is going to have some sort of impact > on battery life. Forgive me if this has already been covered elsewhere > (269-page threads are too much to skim through!), but does the > iPad/iPhone platform have any hardware decoders built-in - will it be > more energy efficient to stream, say, MP3, so that it can be played > natively by the hardware? According to Apple docs iOS based devices have 'hardware assisted decoding' for AAC, HE-AAC, ALAC and mp3. If it's more energy efficient I don't know.
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