On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Crossfire wrote: > Kevin Saenz was once rumoured to have said: > > Apparently you'd be pushing it up hill to get a 486 to play > > mp3s. From what I have read 486 machines just won't play back real > > well. > > mpg123 is your friend. > > If I recall correctly, it can play back full rate on a 486DX2/66, and > *nearly* full rate on a 486SX/33 (IIRC). I used to use a few > inventive patches to downmix the audio for my SBPro anyway and that > just coped with my SX/33 with SBPro. That was a few years ago anyway.
Hmm... what was it I had... um think it was an AMD586-133. This beast I had to use mpg123 -4 (ie downsample 4 times) to get continuous output but then I was running X. I think I got away with -2 on just console. I suppose optimising that with the latest 2.2 kernel ought to work OK (I think it had 64Mb of RAM.) So Keven's comment that they "just won't play back real well" is probably valid :-) Depends on the sound quality you need I guess. A car is one place you want good sound. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
