[Sunhelp] MP3 Player using an LX

[Doug McLaren]

On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 10:06:51AM +0100, S Condit wrote:

| On the subject of using an LX as an MP3 player - I've tried this 
| using  Solaris 2.6 as the OS and using a variety of players (mpg123 is the 
| most cpu efficient I could find). I've nfs mounted the mp3 directory and 
| tried using http to transfer the files using Rimps (Check freshmeat.net for 
| this)
| 
| Whatever method I used to set up the box the only way I could get reliable 
| playback was to downsample the mp3 on playback-  playing it back at 22KHz 
| as it would always break up at 44KHz.
| 
| The box has 96MB BTW
| 
| Has anyone managed this reliably at 44KHz and if so how did you do it????

I tried the same thing and had the same results - the LX is just not
quite fast enough to play your standard mp3's without losing quality.

So, unless we can find a more efficient mp3 player (or optimize
mpg123) or we add some sort of hardware decoder (unlikely) it's just
not going to work.

Actually, it's possible (but unlikely) that Sparc Linux is a bit
faster than Solaris on that box, and that it could play it without
downsampling.  It's a long shot, but maybe it's worth a try.

-- 
Doug McLaren, dougmc at frenzy.com