[vorbis] Current hardware requirements for decoding? (skipping problem)

Jack Moffitt jack at icecast.org
Fri Oct 13 10:31:33 PDT 2000



a p133 is likely just a bit under par for the beta2 decoder.

If you grab the latest cvs snapshot nad compile it it will be much
faster, as we've already had some optimization going on.

jack.

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:24:08PM -0400, Dparsavand at aol.com wrote:
> The vorbis FAQ mentions that decoding vorbis should use roughly the same 
> resources as decoding MP3's, but that the current source is not optimized. So 
> what is the current requirement? I have a Pentium 133 with 64 megs and I 
> cannot get .ogg files to play without skipping. I've tried encoding .wav 
> files and downloading .ogg files from www.vorbis.com and playing them on 
> Winamp with Windows and XMMS and ogg123 on Linux and I always get skipping 
> problems. However, .mp3 files play flawlessly on Winamp and XMMS (though not 
> on mpg123 for some reason).
> 
> Dara Parsavand | dparsavand at aol.com | http://members.aol.com/dparsavand
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