MP3@64 stuttering and skipping

[alexh]

I'm currently using a MAS player for an ongoing MP3 jukebox project, and I might consider going the MP3@64 route if it's less CPU hungry than the current parallel port transfers...

The only CPU power I can imagine is used in MAS is accessing an IDE hard drive. If you have a DMA capable hard drive then it should be very little.

The same overhead will be present if you switched to MP3@64

[alexh]

all the data has to be converted in software to serial for the I2C bus that the MAS chip requires.

MP3's down a 1-bit serial interface? I'm not sure what the Amiga parallel port is capable of, but I would imagine you could pre-process your MP3's into I2C files you can DMA.

For a fixed rate MP3 that could be 192Kbaud, what is the maximum rate of the Amiga parallel port?

[alexh]

Interesting stuff... didnt know there was no DMA to parallel port. Damn that's a bit of an oversight. I am sure there must be a technological reason why not.