Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> 
> > I've successfully played a pcm file directly from across the net on my
> > NFS server and it played well... Its just mp3 files that I've had
> > problems with...
> It's easy to see that the Shark can't do MP3 decoding in real time.
> Just put the output in /dev/null and time it.  I don't remember the
> exact figures, but I think it was about a factor of 5 to slow for real
> time.  Alas, no FPU.

The Shark can comfortably do this with a fixed-point based player;
someone for the Acorn RiscOS machines wrote such a thing. I think, too,
with FP you'll be pushing it. We can get a factor of 2x on the current
l;ibrary, but that's about it I think.

	Neil

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Neil A. Carson