MASPlayer on parallel port other than stock?

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I've got myself a MASPlayer here connected to the stock parallel port on my A1200. It's limitations are pretty well known with high rate MP3's. So...I thought I'd buy an IOBlix 1200P to see if higher rate MP3's could work through this.

No luck in setting it up.

Obviously the main thing is letting MASPlayer know I would like to use the IOBlix device driver. But so far no luck. I am not even sure if it is configurable to use this device.

Has anyone been successful in this? Or even some other similar setup in the MASPlayer is working through another device other than the stock parallel port?

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Mmmmmmm...interesting. The MASPlayer driver disk contains the sourcecode. Not sure what language it is in - I can check. I am not much of a coder, but would it be possible to reprogram it to work/access a different .device?

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Are you saying that the rate limiting factor is not the decoding done on-chip in the MAS device, but the speed at which the data is fed to it?

As best as I recall, when done by the 680X0 CPU the decoding was the rate limiting factor using up to 50+% of even an 060.   But I'm no expert in this area.

The opinion I've gathered in recent times says that yes, in more peoples opinions than not, it's the parallel port speed that is the limiting factor. Mind you...I haven't done tests to confirm this.

That's why I'm thinking the IOBlix1200P (or for other miggies a similar device) would help.

I'm also beginning to think that maybe an MP3@64 would've been a better choice for me???