Author: Flash & the crew (port254.cvx2-sto.ppp.netlink.se)
Date: 02-20-2001 16:01
"then we can see for once and for all, that the STE CAN play MP3's"
Well, not in "realtime", anyway...
I´m sure Anders is right here, it have to decode part of the MP3 first, and THEN play the (8-bit) soundfile. Now, that unpacking
should take a good while, before it can start
to play at all, or? Else it´s an unpacked format.
Realtime MP3 decoding/replaying is just about the edge of the capacity of the Falcon´s DSP, so there´s still simply no way one single
68000 @ 8MHZ can do it.
Anyway, next generation TOS compatibles will eat MP3 for breakfast! -One of the models we´re working on here at Flashlabs, have not only separate DSP´s for sound/gfx, it will also have a special MP3/MP4 coder/decoder chip. :) So Everything sound, even system sounds and music/sound fx in games/demos aso, will be in MPEG format, hehe... HIFI quality, still tiny files, and the MPEG chip also means that the CPU/DSP´s won´t have to deal with the coding/decoding at all! Now, how ´bout that?? We´re still waiting for them chips though, ordered them five weeks ago, so we´re getting a bit bored right now...
But then we hope to show´em MP3! ;o)
BTW, would there be of any public
interest for such a TOS gizmo?
No plans for production yet, though
-we´re still just having very PHUN!
(exploring the possibilitys/limits)
/F/ & the crew
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