386 madplay MP3 playing (test 1) preview

[TahreyUK]

I did expect that the 386 DX40 could probably do better than the 16k of the other video, but still impressed :)

[jamesjan]

40kbps mp3. thats quite light... but cool anyways

remembered i once tried to play a 96kbps MP3 on a 486 DX2-66 on Winamp/Windows95. It crapped out on me.

However I later managed 20kbps MP3 with a 486DX 33MHz on Atomic Player/Win3.1

[TahreyUK]

@jamesjan Winamp was a total power hog back in the day. You could just about scrape 112k on a good day with Winplay3 if you set it in 486 mode. 128k needed you to reduce to mono or 22khz though, which kind of defeated the object. DOS players could ***just*** sustain 128k full rate stereo playback if you pared back the interface... but it wavered between 98 and 101% (! must have been buffer-emptying moments) CPU use...

[dushanostoich]

what is name of the program? and bit rate of MP3 is?

[Telstar85]

Quite nice. That beats my record, 486DX4/75MHz) @ 12MB. Distro was DeLi without any tricks.

[krrainio]

Alan Cox rules!!!!!!! It is Linux-designer that experiments with hardened Linux Its filosophy was Less is strong! Where the Linux goes now?

[krrainio]

It seems, I think that this is so cool guy, that it builds own ''distro''. for this. It is customised and very very optimized system. (y)

[donbaba]

Which ditribution or version du you use on our old computer? Debian, Suse, RedHat, BSD, ... or do you build some by yourself? How did you do that?

[bulli1979]

if this is really at 40 mhz its really cool

[Filosofen88]

I think it says that he's running it in 40 Mhz.

[GroovyMango]

LOL 40% cpu I think ;p

Great dream, fun :)