On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Is there any way to get an mp3 to play steadily on a 486 computer? I have
> a DX4/100MHz... and MP3s are *really* chunky. I would like to be able to
> play them =(... I've even put Linux into Runlevel 1 and it still doesn't
> play them.
I can't give you any stories about how I got a player working on my 486
under linux since I don't have one to play with but I use mpg123 on a P100
without any problems at all, It doesn't have a user interface to speak of
but that shouldn't be a problem.(I control mine via a web based cgi
interface). You will probably have difficulty playing at full quality/rate
but with some command line options you can downsample the sound(which
reduces the quality :( but causes it to use substantially less CPU.
I have used mpg123 on a 486DX2/66 (8 megs ram) without a problem(I had to
set it to mono, or downsample it to half though) running FreeBSD so I
can't see any reason it won't work as well/better under linux.(You may
want to be sure you give the compiler the -O3 flag just to be sure.)
You can get the latest version at: http://mpg.123.org
Clinton
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