Re: TI-H: mp3


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Re: TI-H: mp3




>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
>:)

If a good compressor were made...  :\

>> 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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