[SunRescue] Thought on SPARC MP3 player.

James Lockwood rescue at sunhelp.org
Sat May 12 01:55:12 CDT 2001


Right, I crossed my wires on my last posting.

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> The other option would be to install *NIX on a 68040 mac, like a Q605
> (with FPU) and do it that way - I could even host the web page on another
> system.

I think an '040 based Mac will have trouble doing decoding at a decent
rate unless you heavily buffer.  An LX will just barely manage it under
ideal circumstances, but I wouldn't recommend it either.  Go for the
SS5/85, I used to play mp3's on my desktop SS5/70 all the time while
running X, netscape and some other stuff.

-James




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