> to run on legacy hardware. My test system is a compaq 486/33. I was > wondering if anyone has tried playing ogg vorbis on a system this old.Not quite as old, but my "jukebox" machine is an AMD K6-2/350. It runs ogg123, mysql, apache, proftpd and sendmail and rarely has a system load over 0.10, even when "busy". I know my machine is literally 10x faster than the one you're proposing, but mine also runs a lot more concurrently and doesn't even break a sweat. Seems like just ogg123 would run ok. -- Graham Mitchell - computer science teacher, Leander High School "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass-produced with unskilled labor." -- Wernher von Braun --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
> If so, are there any really > small and efficient media players that would run on this kind of > hardware? If that doesn't work I was going to just write a nice perl > script to control the command line vorbis player or something.Oh, and regarding this part of your question, I remember hearing some months ago that ogg123 had been patched to support the same "remote control" interface that mpg123 does, so front-ends that work with one would also work with the other. I don't know if this addition is in the official version of the tool, though. Assuming you can get this part working, I'm sure there are some lightweight (text or curses interface?) front-ends on freshmeat. -- Graham Mitchell - computer science teacher, Leander High School "Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald. They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints, which if they have as I will leave 'em them, shall yield them little." - Henry the Fifth --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
I'm currently in the process of making a linux distro made specifically to run on legacy hardware. My test system is a compaq 486/33. I was wondering if anyone has tried playing ogg vorbis on a system this old. Does it play without skipping or anything? If so, are there any really small and efficient media players that would run on this kind of hardware? If that doesn't work I was going to just write a nice perl script to control the command line vorbis player or something. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Corey Miller (akheron@earthlink.net) wrote:> I'm currently in the process of making a linux distro made specifically > to run on legacy hardware. My test system is a compaq 486/33.I seriously doubt you'd be able to play Vorbis files on a system this slow. All the developers have said that Vorbis takes roughly the same about of CPU power to play that MP3 plays -- and I couldn't play stereo 44 kHz MP3 files smoothly on my 486/66. (I could just *barely* play mono ones.) Conventional advice is that you need about a Pentium 75 to play Vorbis files smoothly. Take this with a grain of salt. -- Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." greg@wooledge.org | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers http://wooledge.org/~greg/ | -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: part Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis/attachments/20030119/68669840/part-0001.pgp
Wow... You don't have something a _little_ less legacy :) ? I remember barely being able to play stereo 128kbit MP3s (@44.1KHz, 16bit) on an old 486-DX4-100MHz. Usually it wouldn't do, and I had to drop to mono playback. 100% CPU all the time of course.. I seriously doubt you could get sensible vorbis playback on a 486-33... but who knows... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corey Miller" <akheron@earthlink.net> To: <vorbis@xiph.org> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 3:36 AM Subject: [vorbis] Vorbis on Legacy hardware <p>> I'm currently in the process of making a linux distro made specifically> to run on legacy hardware. My test system is a compaq 486/33. I was > wondering if anyone has tried playing ogg vorbis on a system this old. > Does it play without skipping or anything? If so, are there any really > small and efficient media players that would run on this kind of > hardware? If that doesn't work I was going to just write a nice perl > script to control the command line vorbis player or something. > > --- >8 ---- > List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ > Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' > containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. > Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered. >--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
> > a bad main core but good FPU was sold as a 487 coprocessor with only > > the FPU enabled. > > 487SX. It had not only the FPU enabled; it was a full 486DX > with 3 pins > swapped;So how does one swap 3 pins? (sorry.) --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.