[vorbis] Windows XP and MP3

[Monty]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:36:11PM +0200, fungus wrote:
> Michael Smith wrote:
> > 
> > There's been a lot of optimisation work, and the current decoder is better
> > than the 'bad' mp3 decoders as far as speed goes. I'd be surprised if it
> > was still more than twice as slow.
> > 
> 
> Is that in the beta 4 or is it still in the unofficial
> "nightly CVS" versions?

They'll be the same at the moment.

> I probably have to come up with a work-around for the seek
> slowness, 

There are considerable seek improvements waiting in patch form for me
to get to.  I'll do it this week come Hell or high water.

> but the basic decoder is still very slow for a
> game. FWIW, Winamp currently registers aout 5% CPU usage
> with .ogg files, and 1% with .mp3 files.

Again, there are some patches waiting to deal with this too.  The
difficulty is that most patches arrive in '95% complete' form, and
that last 5% takes some effort :-)

> Is speed being worked on for the final release, or is
> Version 1.0 just going to be the beta 4 code but with
> the bugs fixed.

No, there's considerable work left for 1.0.

Monty

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