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Date:      Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:59:27 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, jhs@berklix.com
Subject:   Re: forcing more sound buffering
Message-ID:  <20080117085927.bik3eztii3ogk8wo@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <200801170152.m0H1qMpA065499@fire.js.berklix.net>
References:  <200801170152.m0H1qMpA065499@fire.js.berklix.net>

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Quoting Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org> (from Thu, 17 Jan 2008 =20
02:52:22 +0100):

> I guess ksmp3play uses less internal buffering than mplayer, ? With a .jpg=
:
>  133MHz hw.snd.feeder_buffersize=3D16384 mplayer   : ran a bit rough.
>  133MHz hw.snd.feeder_buffersize=3D65536 ksmp3play : awful
>  133MHz hw.snd.feeder_buffersize=3D65536 mplayer   : still a bit broken.
>  166MHz hw.snd.feeder_buffersize=3D16384 ksmp3play : awful
>  166MHz hw.snd.feeder_buffersize=3D16384 mplayer:  : much better
>  166MHz hw.snd.feeder_buffersize=3D65536 ksmp3play : broke up
>  166MHz hw.snd.feeder_buffersize=3D65536 mplayer   : pretty good, not perf=
ect.

Try with mpg123 (it may or may not solve your problem).

> What is the lowest speed CPU for playing `normal mp3 music (ie `file' abov=
e)
> Am I being over ambitious or reasonable ?

According to www.mpg123.org:
---snip---
Needed computing power

A recent test (GNU/Linux OS) with 0.60-beta2 showed 3% to 4% CPU usage =20
on decoding high quality VBR MP3 with a pentiumII laptop with 366MHz, =20
while a pentium 100MHz can easily handle two mpg123 instances in =20
realtime (plus the mixing daemon that works on decoded data).
Michael said once upon a time

Plays Layer 3 in stereo on an AMD-486-120Mhz or (of course) a faster machine=
.

Just for info: mpg123 plays an average 128bps stream, with about 66% =20
in full quality on an AMD 486-133MHz machine.
---snip---

Bye,
Alexander.

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