The Mplayer guys do optimisation especially rewriting some blocks of
code in assembler but it is mainly video stuff which would otherwise
kill a modest processor. Also many optimisation are done for x86 type
processors.

Where possible they also code for fixed point rather than floating but
I think the guys were just happy enough to write their own codec which
has minimal floating point and they use a lot of tables which are
generated once at startup - so some effort has been made.

My worry is that aside from QNAP and linkstation-HG many newer NASs are
ARM or MIPS based without any floating point - so even though they may
have high speed processors (e.g. 400-600MHz) they may not be enough for
RealAudio.

Well at least we know the problem - I'll post the findings on the
mplayer list and see if any suggestions are made.


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