[Vorbis] Current system requirements for real time decoding?

[Rene Herman]

Jernej Simončič wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 19:32:08, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
> 
>> From my own tests, at least a Pentium 160 mhz with MMX capability, and at
>> least 32 mb ram. Older computers would choke the sound constantly. It also
>> depends of the Operating System optimization and the player. For these
>> tests, I tried Windows 98 and Winamp.
> 
> My portable player (iRiver H120) has a Coldfire CPU that runs at most at
> 120MHz (usually less), and Vorbis plays just fine on it (I'm using the
> open-source RockBox firmware[1], although the stock firmware also supports
> Vorbis).
> 
> [1] <http://www.rockbox.org/>

On Linux using ALSA (and the regular reference libraries and software) 
playing -q8 Ogg Vorbis takes less than 50% of a (non-MMX) Pentium 133.

P1-60 power therefore, approximately. 486DX4-75 or -100 would also do.

Rene.