[vorbis] Vorbis on Legacy hardware

[Greg Wooledge]

Corey Miller (akheron at earthlink.net) wrote:

> I'm currently in the process of making a linux distro made specifically 
> to run on legacy hardware.  My test system is a compaq 486/33.

I seriously doubt you'd be able to play Vorbis files on a system
this slow.  All the developers have said that Vorbis takes roughly
the same about of CPU power to play that MP3 plays -- and I couldn't
play stereo 44 kHz MP3 files smoothly on my 486/66.  (I could just
*barely* play mono ones.)

Conventional advice is that you need about a Pentium 75 to play Vorbis
files smoothly.  Take this with a grain of salt.


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