Vorbis - Oct 2000 - Current hardware requirements for decoding? (skipping problem)

The vorbis FAQ mentions that decoding vorbis should use roughly the same 
resources as decoding MP3's, but that the current source is not optimized.
So
what is the current requirement? I have a Pentium 133 with 64 megs and I 
cannot get .ogg files to play without skipping. I've tried encoding .wav 
files and downloading .ogg files from www.vorbis.com and playing them on 
Winamp with Windows and XMMS and ogg123 on Linux and I always get skipping 
problems. However, .mp3 files play flawlessly on Winamp and XMMS (though not 
on mpg123 for some reason).

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a p133 is likely just a bit under par for the beta2 decoder.

If you grab the latest cvs snapshot nad compile it it will be much
faster, as we've already had some optimization going on.

jack.

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:24:08PM -0400, Dparsavand@aol.com
wrote:
> The vorbis FAQ mentions that decoding vorbis should use roughly the same 
> resources as decoding MP3's, but that the current source is not
optimized. So
> what is the current requirement? I have a Pentium 133 with 64 megs and I 
> cannot get .ogg files to play without skipping. I've tried encoding
.wav
> files and downloading .ogg files from www.vorbis.com and playing them on 
> Winamp with Windows and XMMS and ogg123 on Linux and I always get skipping 
> problems. However, .mp3 files play flawlessly on Winamp and XMMS (though
not
> on mpg123 for some reason).
> 
> Dara Parsavand | dparsavand@aol.com | http://members.aol.com/dparsavand
> 
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At 13:24 13/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
>The vorbis FAQ mentions that decoding vorbis should use roughly the same
>resources as decoding MP3's, but that the current source is not
optimized. So
>what is the current requirement? I have a Pentium 133 with 64 megs and I
>cannot get .ogg files to play without skipping. I've tried encoding .wav
>files and downloading .ogg files from www.vorbis.com and playing them on
>Winamp with Windows and XMMS and ogg123 on Linux and I always get skipping
>problems. However, .mp3 files play flawlessly on Winamp and XMMS (though not
>on mpg123 for some reason).
Hello,

Try this plug-in for WinAMP, it should be a bit faster and let me know what 
happends. It is based in beta2 with some optimizations (a few) 
http://www.hispamp3.com/ogg/downloads/winamp_opt.zip


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Goeff wrote:
> I run linux on a pentium 120 with 32 MB RAM and ogg123 ...
> all work just fine
This is what I would have expected. I did try ogg123 without X and it makes 
no difference on my machine. I think I may have some hardware problem because 
I was swapping IRQ's in order to try different Linux OSS drivers and for
some
reason Winamp on Windows started working briefly.  Oh well, I'm not ready to
get a new laptop yet, so I'll just wait for the next beta and try again.
I'm
currently having no luck with the nightly-CVS snapshot either, but that's 
another topic.

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