[vorbis] Windows XP and MP3

[Wilson]

Are you sure you're not counting visualization as well. Try turning all of
that off for a more realisitic test. Any $40 CPU today should be able to
play ten simultaneous OGG files without choking.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Beni Cherniavsky" <scben at techst02.technion.ac.il>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Windows XP and MP3

> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Adam Ottley wrote:
> > >
> > > On April 13, 2001 12:36 pm, you wrote:
> > > > Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > >
> > > > Maybe it's because I was just looking at the task manager,
> > > > but still, Winamp mp3 oscilates between 0% and 2% while
> > > > Winamp ogg is at 5%-6%.
> > > >
> > > I've been getting some wild differences here.  I've found Wintop to be
the
> > > best gauge of CPU use in Win9x (Wintop is in the kerneltoys package,
just do
> > > a search on microsoft.com for it), and I get a much smaller difference
> > > between the Winamp 2.22 Mp3 decoder and Ogg beta 4 in Winamp.  On my
P2-400,
> > > Mp3 runs about 6-7% where Ogg is about 8%.  I also tried it on a
vanilla
> >
> > This is too _small_ a difference to be realistic.
> >
> > > P200, and Mp3 took ~20-22% where Ogg was ~24-25%.  Both were in Win98.
> >
> > These numbers are _way_ too high for a 200 MHz cpu, even if it is a P5.
> >
> This were my numbers for a P200 Ogg too.  MP3 was slightly faster than
> this, I don't remember exactly now.
> I did look at the decode thread only, and had similar results with the
> wave writer output plugin (which plays max possible speed).
>
> --
> Beni Cherniavsky <cben at crosswinds.net>
>                  (also scben at t2,cben at tx in Technion)
>
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