Thank you so much!! mpg123 works great (I don't care that the sound
quality is down a bit... I can play MP3!!)
- Mike
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Michael B. Trausch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.wcnet.org/~mtrausch 100% Microsoft Free on a PC!
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On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Clinton Bentley wrote:
CB>Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 07:32:33 +0200 (SAT)
CB>From: Clinton Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CB>To: Michael B. Trausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CB>Cc: linux-newbie Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CB>Subject: Re: MP3 on 486
CB>
CB>On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
CB>
CB>> Is there any way to get an mp3 to play steadily on a 486 computer? I have
CB>> a DX4/100MHz... and MP3s are *really* chunky. I would like to be able to
CB>> play them =(... I've even put Linux into Runlevel 1 and it still doesn't
CB>> play them.
CB>
CB>I can't give you any stories about how I got a player working on my 486
CB>under linux since I don't have one to play with but I use mpg123 on a P100
CB>without any problems at all, It doesn't have a user interface to speak of
CB>but that shouldn't be a problem.(I control mine via a web based cgi
CB>interface). You will probably have difficulty playing at full quality/rate
CB>but with some command line options you can downsample the sound(which
CB>reduces the quality :( but causes it to use substantially less CPU.
CB>
CB>I have used mpg123 on a 486DX2/66 (8 megs ram) without a problem(I had to
CB>set it to mono, or downsample it to half though) running FreeBSD so I
CB>can't see any reason it won't work as well/better under linux.(You may
CB>want to be sure you give the compiler the -O3 flag just to be sure.)
CB>
CB>You can get the latest version at: http://mpg.123.org
CB>
CB>Clinton
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