[vorbis-dev] How many MIPS for Vorbis Decoder?

[Dominik Kuhlen]

On Friday 19 March 2004 16:55, Jens Prüfer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I may be stupid, but I cannot find any data on how "expensive" the Vorbis
> Decoder is. Looking for an embedded solution I am interested in how many
> "MIPS" you need to decode a MONO audio stream at reasonable quality (44
> kHz, approx. 100 kbps?)
>
> Can it be done in a microcontroller, or do I need ultra-expensive DSPs to
> do it?
A Sharp Zaurus with a 206MHz STRONG ARM SA1100 processor 
has about 25% CPU load while decoding a vorbis Stereo stream at160kBit/s.
And about 22% at 64kBit/s.
This has been measured with the default Tremor library (XMMS decoder plugin).

Dominik
--- >8 ----
List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-dev-request at xiph.org'
containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.