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lesscraftyesterday at 6:41 PM1 replyview on HN

No one really offloads AAC, apart from Apple. Opus can be decoded on very cheap microcontrollers entirely in software using the reference library.


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philistineyesterday at 10:47 PM

On a microcontroller doing nothing else sure. But on a phone, a tablet, a laptop, you absolutely want hardware decode to preserve your battery life.