On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:45:17PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2004-07-06 John Hedges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'd like to adopt splay, a command line mp3 player. I've updated the bug
> > report (#246971) to reflect ITA but have a couple of questions before
> > uploading.
> [...]
>
> I have not used and tested it but have just looked at package
> description and website. How does splay differ from mpg321?
splay is the fastest mp3 decoder I know of, using about one third the cpu
required by mpg123 (based on woody packages). I just tried mplayer so
now know of a faster one :)
This makes splay more suitable than mpg123 when decoding to files or
when using slower hardware. Mainly I use epia based MiniITX as mp3
players, but the tests below are on a P4:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ time mpg123 -s 1.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1
real 0m6.278s
user 0m6.260s
sys 0m0.000s
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ time madplay -o raw:- 1.mp3 2>&1 >/dev/null 2>&1
real 0m5.943s
user 0m5.920s
sys 0m0.000s
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ time splay -d - 1.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1
real 0m4.748s
user 0m2.100s
sys 0m0.000s
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ time mplayer -ao pcm 1.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1
real 0m1.893s
user 0m1.730s
sys 0m0.090s
Cheers
John
