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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2003, 12:20:28 PM »
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Thanks, guys!
I'm trying to tweak as much life as possible out of my old Athlon 750.
I'm probably going to loose my job, so I won't be able to buy a new computer as I planned... :-(


Yeah, that sucks!!! I've had 4 jobs in the space of one year!!! there is no stability in the work place anymore.
I'm still using my Old Athlon 600 with a TNT2, I had planned to upgrade to an Athlon64, but I've not had a steady enough income to really save that much.

Fortunatelly, after a quick Email to AMD asking them to put back the launch of the A64 for a bit so I could raise the funds to buy one, they did, wasn't that nice of them :-P

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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2003, 12:33:46 PM »
@bloodline

the most likely reason why SB cards can't encode mp3 in hardware is that it would require a licence from Fraunhofer dev labs. The Audigy series packs anough punch to do whatever encoding you need, in hardware.
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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #16 on: March 26, 2003, 12:36:28 PM »
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I'm probably going to loose my job, so I won't be able to buy a new computer as I planned... :-(


Sorry to hear that. I know the feeling well!
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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2003, 01:12:56 PM »
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I'm probably going to loose my job, so I won't be able to buy a new computer as I planned... :-(


Sorry to hear that. I know the feeling well!

I look at the bright side. I've been complaining about this job for ages, so I need a lil' kick in the arse to get a new one!  :-D  :-D  :-D
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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #18 on: March 26, 2003, 03:00:22 PM »
An optimists view at last! Good for you mate :-D
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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #19 on: March 26, 2003, 03:07:59 PM »
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An optimists view at last! Good for you mate :-D

Yeah. If everything else fail I  allways have our famous swedish welfare! ;-)
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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #20 on: March 26, 2003, 03:15:22 PM »
u got a good dole there, how much a week do u get in sterling ? , we get £107 a fortnight here, plus a bit of coucil tax relief/rates, housing benefit(to help pay your rent/mortgage)
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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #21 on: March 26, 2003, 03:19:18 PM »
No idea.
A couple that I know get around 9000 SEK ( 661£ ) a month, but it's dependant on circumstances, so I really don't know.
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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #22 on: March 26, 2003, 03:22:33 PM »
f me, thats loads, they must have about twenty kids or something
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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #23 on: March 26, 2003, 03:30:14 PM »
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f me, thats loads, they must have about twenty kids or something

No kids... They have a cat, though I don't get any money for feeding it.
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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #24 on: March 27, 2003, 07:24:20 AM »
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Yep...
Bang! goes the IT-bubble...

Got the papers last night...
My last day will be may 2nd. :-(
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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #25 on: March 27, 2003, 08:08:08 AM »
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Sure the Live! comes with Windoze software to encode MP3's but the card does not do it in hardware!!!
The Live! card is just a bunch of DACs and ADCs with a DSP for adding effects, it's not designed to encode mp3s


even if so, who gives a crap, it can still do it!!!!!
there seems to be enough technology on the card to handle it



Nice hardware. I have one too. Still doesn't make it encode MP3 IN the hardware. ALl the tools is just software, and only a couple of 'em depend upon the Live! card to do their magic. MP3 encoding ain't one of 'em.

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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #26 on: March 27, 2003, 09:20:51 AM »
well under linux OSS the linux source driver does report to OSS that it supports hardware MPEG decoding.

there is also some stuff on the net that dabbles with the DSP and HW decoding of various sound file formats AC3, AAC, OGG etc.
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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #27 on: March 27, 2003, 09:55:10 AM »
@whabang
What are you asking about? encoding (audio -> mp3) or decoding (mp3 -> audio) ?
topic is about decoding, while in the text body you ask about encoding.. /me confused.

Anyway, I haven't heard of a soundcard with hardware mp3 encoding. Also decoding mp3 takes only few percent of CPU time so it's questionable if it makes sense to put this on custom hardware on a soundcard.

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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #28 on: March 27, 2003, 10:01:16 AM »
Decoding.
As said, I try to squeeze as much power as possible out of that ol' crappy 750 i got...
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Re: MP3 decoding with SBLive!
« Reply #29 from previous page: March 27, 2003, 10:05:36 AM »
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whabang wrote:
Decoding.
As said, I try to squeeze as much power as possible out of that ol' crappy 750 i got...


As I said, winamp 2.8 uses about 2-5% cpu time on my AMD K6 II 350. Really, mate don't worry about it  :-D
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