| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 3 Aug 2000 at 23:15:47 |
| Subject: | Re: Mpeg 3 playback. |
Martin Nicholson said,
> Hello Neil
>>> Anyway, even with an 060 or a PPC you'd be wasting your time, if
>>> you wanted the full quality of the sound.
>>
>> You jest! A PPC easily copes with full-quality decoding of MP3. A
>> 604/233 can *encode* faster than realtime.
> Not at all. Has I said if you want the *full* quality! Mp3s are encoded
> as 16 bit, not 8 bit or even pseudo-14 bit. So even if you could put a
> G3 PPC to work, it still squirts out through an 8 bit sound chip.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with the CPU used. If you said you
need a sound card to hear them in full quality I'd have agreed with you.
Having a PPC doesn't rule out 16 bit output.
Neil
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