Originally Posted By: canuckInOR
Originally Posted By: dbrashear
embed a AAC decoder and have an open() of an AAC just background decode to a tmp file, and then remap I/O to it; close() could discard it.

Of course, you'd have to ensure that some partition remains mounted rw.


48mb unit, i certainly wouldn't feel bad about making a memory-resident filesystem to do so, to an extent.

tho, continuing to brainstorm: were there posix extended attribute support, i'd shove an mp3 into an xattr and link a player binary which knew to use that in place of the main data.