Re: Sound question

[CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:37:20 -0500, "Reginald Blue"
<Reginald_Blue@hotmail.com> wrote:

>The overhead for playing (decoding) them is fairly low.  The overhead for
>encoding them is tremendous.  Whether a "real" // gs could keep up with
>playing them isn't clear to me though.  You certainly wouldn't want one
>trying to encode one though.

I couldn't play MP3's on my 486DX4-100 machine without reducing the
quality of playback and even then, it sometimes skipped.  Keep in mind
that that processor has a built in match co-processor which almost all
IIgs' lack.

I don't believe a IIgs would be able to handle real time playback of
MP3s.

Converting to WAV will work but you have to make sure you convert it
to an 8 bit mono WAV file.  The only program for the IIgs that will
play stereo WAV files in stereo is a hack I threw together to show
that Oversampler didn't playback in stereo and believe me, you don't
want to try playing back with it because it requires the entire sample
be loaded into memory and it can take up to 30 minutes to load a large
sample. :)

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