| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 4 Aug 2000 at 00:41:55 |
| Subject: | Re: Mpeg 3 playback. |
Hi Everybody,
>>> 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.
And if you had a sound card?
Anyway, pseudo-14 bit sounds perfectly fine to me anyway.
By the way, are you sure that mp3's are saved as 16 bit, or any number
of bits for that matter? I'm not sure, but I have a feeling it saves
waveform data, not the actualy wave (like instead of saving a wave
like a sample, it saves it as a frequency and volume or sommin.) If
that's true, then in theory a decoder could decode at an infinite bit
res.
See ya :)
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