[vorbis] Vorbis on Legacy hardware

[Olaf Marzocchi]

At 03.58 20/01/2003, you wrote:
>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.)

I was able to play mp3s with a 486/66 with windows and winamp only with 
22khz sample rate, stereo.
Maybe with linux you could play an mp3 at full rate, but not an ogg vorbis.

Olaf

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