MP3 decoding with SBLive!

[Hammer]

@ bloodline
Just to add.

EMU10K
1. 2,439,711 transistors.
2. 50 Mhz and 100Mhz internal audio clock.
3. 0.35 micron, newer version is at .25 micron
4. 32bit fixed-point and integer operands, 67bit accumulator.

PS; SB Live's specs have been ellipsed by newer APU/DSP chips e.g.  nVidia SoundStorm, VIA Envy and CL SB Audigy II.

[Hammer]

Desmon wrote:
@Warpiper

@bloodline

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.

Note that AMD’s Athlon can be made to do DSP type jobs, since it has several DSP instructions (not including 3Dnow/SSE instructions). Making the Athlon one of the fastest DSP chip in the market....