MP3 on Amiga?

[Karlos]

wildstar1063 wrote:
Is it possible to play MP3's on an Amiga 3000T with a
 stock 030 25mhz, without the sound constantly starting
 and stopping?

Thanks

Chuck

If you dont want to get a beefier system I'd say one of those parallel port MHI decoder things would be good. Or perhaps a delfina DSP based soundcard (IIRC there were mpeg decoders written for its DSP).
For CPU based decoding through paula, forget it, unless you can live with 11kHz 8-bit mono.

Under 680x0 you really need at least a fast 040 to get any joy. My 25MHz 040, which is what, 4x faster than 030 @25MHz, can manage 22kHz 14-bit stereo, but it uses so much CPU (havent tried a libmad based decoder yet, might be better). For better quality an 060 is essential. Lukily for me, I use a BlizzPPC and can use ppc based decoders such as amiga amp which works a treat (apart from that time I mistakenly 'upgraded' to AHI v5)...

[Karlos]

_LinchpiN_ wrote:
So... What chance would my a500+ with 2mb chip ram have of playing 44khz stereo mp3?

heh Heh :-D

Assuming your parallel port can move more than 20k/s and there is a 68000 based driver then probanly very high with a MHI based decoder... ;-)