Re: TI-H: mp3


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Re: TI-H: mp3




ya, very small world

well it is a 486 33 SX

joe

PS. the sys. I use most of the time is my AMD K6-300

Bryan Rittmeyer wrote:

> Joseph M. Geiss wrote:
>
> > yah, its easy to compress it but, damn, its a pain to decompress(play) it on a
> > slow computer.
>
> Actually it takes a lot more CPU time to compress than to decompress.
> Only
> decompression has to be realtime, so it can seem more demanding. You can
> compress an mp3 on an old 386 if you want, it'll just take a few weeks
> :)
>
> > I have an old 486 laptop that i use every so often and it takes like 10min to load
> > a damn file.
>
> Really? There shouldn't be much of a 'load' time associated with an
> mp3.. it usually
> loads a small amount of the file into DRAM at a time, as it plays.
>
> > I read in some artice that MP4 would be 2x of MP3, 500K/min. with the same quality
> > as mp3. seems to good to be true... time will tell
>
> Yeah, but MP4 will require even more CPU power to encode/decode.
>
> Do you live in the Baltimore area? Your e-mail address is from a local
> library...
> I'm up in Westminster. Small world, huh? :)
>
> --
> Bryan Rittmeyer
> mailto:bryanr@flash.net
> http://www.flash.net/~bryanr/




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