| From: | Martin Nicholson |
| Date: | 3 Aug 2000 at 20:22:23 |
| Subject: | Re: Mpeg 3 playback. |
Hiya Andrew
On 03-Aug-00, Andrew Crowe wrote:
>> The problem with using mono, is that the channels aren't mixed, it
>> just plays the left channel. If you get a mp3 where, for example,
>> the lead singer's voice is biased towards the right channel, you'll
>> hardly hear them at all :(
>
> Well, your only hope is to a) convert them to MP2 (need much less
> cpu time to decode :) or b) get either an 060 or PPC :)
>
> for a), I think Pegasis or sommin can convert from AIFF/WAV to MP2,
> and you can use mpega to convert an MP3 to either of them. (Although
> it make take a while :/
The above was an observation, not a complaint :) I'm quite happy to
listen to them @ 11025 Hz in stereo best quality, and give myself
plenty of clock cycles left for other stuff. If I need to, I can
squeeze that up to 22050 Hz, providing I do nothing else. When this PC
beside me is built, then it can handle playing mp3s, while the Amiga
does the important stuff.
Anyway, even with an 060 or a PPC you'd be wasting your time, if you
wanted the full quality of the sound. I'd have said your only hope was
to get a 16 bit soundcard with onboard mpeg decoding, in which case it
wouldn't matter what processor you used, even a bog standard A500
would do.
With Regards
Worzel
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