A Patch for mpg123 on 486DX PCs
Introduction
Why not use your old 486 PC as a jukebox ? This is now possible with
this patch to mpg123 which may enable it to play MPEG audio layer 3
(.mp3) files in real time. Note that this optimization is only
currently supported for Linux.
The newest version (patch level 1) can play MPEG audio layer 3 files
at 22.1 kHz in stereo even on a 486DX2/66.
Performances
The following table gives the performance of mpg123-486pl1 on an
MPEG audio layer3 file at 112 kbit/s.
| Processor | 22 kHz - stereo | 44 kHz - mono |
44 kHz - stereo
|
| 486DX50 | No (almost !) | OK (80% CPU) | No
|
| 486DX2/66 | OK | should work | Not yet (almost !)
|
| 486DX4/100 | OK | OK | OK
|
Download
Download the sources:
mpg123-0.59o-486pl1.tar.gz and read the README & README.i486 files.
Links
The original mpg123 player (written by Michael Hipp et al.) can be
found here
.
If you have any questions or suggestions, write to fabrice.bellard at free.fr
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last update: May 26, 1998