posted 18 September 2003 13:59            

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Originally posted by KX:
While mp3 is not the best sounding format, I think it would be nice to
have it supported by Kyma.

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i see your point, though personally i'd rather have this pushed off to the host CPU. i gander an existing decoder could be modified to stream over the firewire to the kyma and show up much like a disk track in kyma. the host CPU then deals with the decoding saving on capy cycles.

if this is done by users rather than SSC, SSC won't have to pay out per user licensing schemes. i'd rather that money go towards hardware and software reseach or other wider applications.

there is a new tools builder in kyma x so perhaps this would be easier than times past.

btw, for some benchmarking (this is thanks to talking with the engineer who wrote the media players for beOS and the media architecture forthcoming palmOS):

in a highly optmized environment (say BeOS with 1Ghz P3), you can decode about 10 MP3 streams. in a less optmized but more powerful setup (Mac O9 on a 1Ghz machine), you can decode about 10-12 MP3 as well.

how that translate to the capy is hard to say, but it is certainly not going to be efficent as aiff or wav.