On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 10:59:58AM +0100, Steve Woodford wrote:
> However, there is no COMPAT_LINUX for the ARM architecture so Empeg's
> MP3 decoder software, et al, won't run under NetBSD. You also can't just
> use something like "mpegplay" from the Ports/Packages collection either
> as they depend on fast floating point. Since the StrongARM has no
> hardware floating point, performance will suck big time. 

Even on a 220MHz machine?

> There are several
> fixed point MP3 implementations knocking around, but I haven't seem
> them in source form. (I assume Empeg's MP3 algorithm is fixed point).

What about xaudio (http://www.xaudio.com/).  That's free for non-commercial
use -- of course, I don't actually see a NetBSD port there :-(  Perhaps I
could convince them it's worthwhile?

N
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