AlienBBC uses mplayer to do RealAudio decoding. The RealAudio codec as
implemented needs Floating point support.  

As an example - a 266MHZ PPC processor with FPU (such as in QNAP,
DS-106, Linkstation HG)  can handle decoding needing only about 10-15%
CPU.  A 266Mhz ARM processor (as in NSLU2) no FPU - the
compiler/libraries provides floating point emulation - the ARM
processor cannot decode a stream in real time.

Real have implemented a fixed point decoder for RealAudio on ARM
processors and it works.  

I don't know what processor is in the Infrant box but I presume it
doesn't have an FPU.


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