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Re: MP3 Playback on a stock A1200?!
« on: March 27, 2004, 02:31:22 PM »
My A1200 has a 40MHz 68030 card and I can get it to play mp3s just fine, but they suck in quality.  I remember using mpega:

I hope I can remember this right

MPEGA mp3file.mp3 -d4 -q0 -m

d4 = divide frequency (44.1KHz) by 4 (11.025) KHz

q0 = accuracy level 0

m = mono

Those settings left me enough bandwidth to actually do a little multitasking :-)  If you only have the stock 68EC020 CPU don't even bother because the lowest settings will still be too much for it.  I have never used a 68060 so I couldn't tell you how well that works.

Oddly my 040/40 in my 3000T will lock up if I try and play MP3s.

Anyway it is possible but unless you have an mp3 hardware decoder or PPC card it kinda sucks.