I thought that SB128 and 040 can play mp3s!!!

[Piru]

@MASACREWILL

I think that bottleneck in my system (beside the CPU) is 4xEIDE disk controller.. simply IDE consumes so much CPU power..

Actually, reading the compressed data (mp3) off the disk takes less time than transferring the decoded sampledata (stereo 16bit) over Mediator. A1200 Mediator has no DMA to amiga system memory, it's all CPU poking and peeking.

However, in this case the obviously most time consuming part is the mp3 decoding. SB128 can't speed that up.

[Piru]

060 would allow you to listen to most mp3s, but still it would suck considerable portion of the CPU time and it would still be easy to get hickups and gaps by just doing something CPU intensive.

I prefer to use G4 @ 1GHz, mp3s take couple of percent CPU time there... plus I can watch all my movies with it.

[Piru]

@MASACREWILL

what OS do You use with that G4?

MorphOS, Mac OS X and Debian GNU/Linux.

[Piru]

I'm not quite happy with my PC, generating more heat/noise than the two Pegs combined. I should underclock/downgrade it or something.

[Piru]

@MASACREWILL

who actually sells Pegasoses?

Mostly amiga dealers, for example Vesalia and GGS Data.

Anyway, you might want to check The Pegasos Book, it has tons of information about the system and what's possible with it.

[Piru]

@MASACREWILL

what about choosing Warp 3D decoder in the Amiga Amp instead of mpega.library?

There is no Warp3D decoder in AmigaAMP. There is WarpUP one though. Warp3D != WarpUP.