MPG123, MISCELLANEOUS, MPEG audio fast real-time player ********************************************************************** * MPEG 1.0/2.0 _AUDIO_ PLAYER, V0.59n * * * * (full?) MPEG 1.0/2.0, Layer 1,2 and 3 support * * Layer-3 realtime only with a 'fast' machine * * Since April 97, 128kbit j-stereo should work on a 486DX4-120. * * With 2:1 down-sampling or using the downmix-mode even a 486DX2-66 * * should play such a stream in realtime! * * * * I still claim to have the fastest MPEG Audio Player for UNIX ;) * ********************************************************************** written/modfied by: Michael Hipp (email: Michael.Hipp@student.uni-tuebingen.de) Oliver Fromme (several enhancements, man pages, Makefile, FreeBSD port, License, etc.) MPEG 123 V 0.59.O Port under OpenVMS Alpha August 1998 ========================================== Mpeg 123 is an Mpeg Audio layer I, II and III real-time player It is only available with OpenVMS Alpha systems with a 16 bits sound card and MMOV (MultiMedia services for OpenVMS) installed (Alphastations 200, 250, 255, 500, 600) On Alphastation 255 4/233, real time playing of an Mpeg-2 file gives about 22 % On Alphastation 255 4/233, real time playing of an Mpeg-3 file gives about 26 % We can note than Mpeg123 is a bit faster than Mpeg3play with Mpeg Layer II streams, but near twice than Mpeg3play with Mpeg Layer III streams !! Another nive feature of Mpeg123, it can downsample in real-time. This kit contains sources, object and executables. Enjoy !! Patrick Moreau pmoreau@cena.dgac.fr moreau_p@decus.fr