Re: [iPAQ] mpg123

I compiled mpg123 for the IPAQ. I latest rev compiles for the strongarm.
It works fine for me. The reason I use mpg123 over madpaly is for streaming
audio. madplay doesn't support streaming audio icecast or shoutcast.

steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Cohen" <richard@vmlinuz.org>
To: <yannski@www-aius.u-strasbg.fr>
Cc: "familiar" <familiar@handhelds.org>; "ipaq" <ipaq@handhelds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 4:37 AM
Subject: Re: [iPAQ] mpg123

> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 yannski@www-aius.u-strasbg.fr wrote:
>
> >
> > Has someone ever compiled mpg123 for the IPAQ ?
> > In that case, could you explain how ?
>
> People have, but unless you have a *serious* need for it, it's not a good
> idea. The ARM chip used in the iPAQ has no hardware floating-point number
> support, so using floating-point numbers is (compared to, for example, a
> desktop machine with hardware support) very slow. mpg123 uses floats
> heavily, so it will use up to (or even more than) the entire CPU time to
> play an MP3.
>
> We tend to use madplay, which is an integer-only MP3 player. It produces
> pretty good quality, while only using a few percent of the CPU time. If
you
> need something which is command-line compatible with mpg123, mpg321 is
> available, based on the madplay engine, from
http://people.debian.org/~drew/
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > yk
>
> Cheers
> Richard
>
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Received on Wed Oct 10 08:25:00 2001