With judicious use of buffers, my 486 DX/2 66 (40mb of ram) can play mp3s with mpg123
easily. It doesn't even use all of the cpu. I forget how much, it's somewhere around
85%. On the same machine, if I open x11amp, it literally takes about 3-5 minutes to
draw the window, when not playing mp3s. Should say something about the relative
efficiency of both programs. Even now that I have a dual processor machine, I use
gqmpeg as a frontend to mpg123. Plus, it has pretty skins. :)
-Nick Holifield
"Mark N. Hattarki" wrote:
> If you are using mpg123 to play your mp3's, you can increase the buffer
> size with the -b option. I haven't firgured out how to get x11amp to do
> this. On a slower machine, you'd prolly want to go non-graphical anyway.
>
> namaste,
> Mark
>
> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Michael Yuan wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Oh well, the mp3 skips when netscape is renderring a new page. But I guess
> > it happens no matter how fast your processor is: netscape just eat all the
> > resources it could possiblly find. My point is that I can run both on the
> > low end machine without crashing anything.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Paul Sack wrote:
> >
> > > And you weren't downsampling the mp3's? That's incredible. my p200 w/
> > > 64mb ram rh 5.2 couldn't do x11amp & netscape well. (i have since
> > > switched to mpg123 which is far more efficient.) Although this could
> > > have something to do with the video card holding the system while it
> > > repaints the netscape window every time i load a new page. Could be my
> > > cheap laptop video card...
> > >
> > > Michael Yuan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I do not know about your other questions. But I used to run RH6 with
> > > > netscape and X11amp on a P-75 with 24MB RAM. There was no problem. So,
> > > > your processor power is definately enough
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > > michael
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Gary Tsai wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > i'm currently running rh6 under my "temporary" p5-100 in hopes that the k6-3
> > > > > 400 or higher will fall under $100 very quickly. i'm having some problems
> > > > > getting netscape and x11 amp to work though, and i'm wondering if it's
> > > > > because my processor is too slow. it freezes up when i try to run either
> > > > > app. i used to use rh6 under a k6-233 and everything worked fine, but i had
> > > > > to give up that machine.
> > > > >
> > > > > also, what kernel version started letting you leave out the statement in
> > > > > LILO which specified your memory if you had more than 64M? was it 2.2.x?
> > > > > also, i just got an asus p5a board with the ALi Aladdin V chipset, and i
> > > > > hear it only caches 128M of RAM. i have a 64M DIMM in there, and i was just
> > > > > wondering if it wouldn't even be worth it to get anything more than another
> > > > > 64M DIMM.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > one last question. is there a place where you can get a list to read about
> > > > > what all of those packages in the RH install actually do? i'd like to know
> > > > > more about what i'm installing.
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks,
> > >
> >
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