> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Robin L. wrote:
> 
>> hmm ... that's strange ... I play mp3 on my MP790, which is basically using
>> the same chip NEC Vr4121@168 ... and XAudio plays fine. Granted that is
>> running in WinCE3.0 and not NetBSD ... but I thought it should run better?
> 
> It's probably that the USB in the MP880 is too slow to handle the data
> transfer load.  The 880 has a builtin *mono* audio output, which would not
> be very useful for musical output, whereas the 790 has a builtin stereo
> output (not USB)....

Vr4121 does not have floating-point coprocessor, and it is emulated in
kernel. You must use player which does not use floating-point.