From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Isaiah Weiner Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 14:08:13 +0000 Subject: Re: CD ripper/MP3 encoder Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org > You'd think so, but any modern CPU does just fine at mp3 encoding, > better than realtime usually. The bottleneck is usually the CD drive, > and my personal experience has been the consumer-grade ATAPI CD drives > are the only ones with greater than 1x audio read speeds. I haven't > tried ripping audio tracks on any of my sun boxes though, YMMV. I definitely agree on the encoding part, even crappy first-batch Celerons do it without a problem. But the ability to rip, encode, and play mp3s at the same time is great. I haven't found a PC that can do that -- the ripping process always eats up the I/O of the machine too much. Ripping at a different speed, while it uses less I/O, still uses too much to justify the speed loss. Just one more reason /me *heart* sparcs > +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Aaron T Porter | If you can't code it -- support it | > | atporter@primate.net | Help make Linux work for everyone | > | owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu | Subscribe to linux-admin today. | > +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ - Isaiah