[linux-audio-dev] synthesis on gp2x .. (was Fwd: RE: [gpx-dev] hardware interfaces)

[Paul Davis]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 13:16 -0600, Richard Smith wrote:
> > > Sounds great, but I'm a little bit confused by other information I found
> > > on the web about USB host mode support:
> >
> > I'm confused too.  I've never heard of "USB host mode", what is it?
> 
> I believe he is refering to if the device can operate as a USB host
> bridge rather than just as a usb device.  OTG devices and some
> embedded chips can be both.

we have an iAudio X5 compressed music + video player around that is
capable of this, for example. you can plug a USB mass storage based
camera in, and the X5 acts as the USB host.

--p