Reply 3840 of 27784, by Standard Def Steve
I loaded up Win95 and tested MP3 playback on the DX2-66 machine I recently rescued.
I took a FLAC encoded song and transcoded it to MP3 at different bit rates and sample rates. The highest quality that the DX2 could handle without skipping was a 11KHz/mono/48kbps file. Stereo playback topped out at just 32kb/s. The entire Windows UI slowed to a crawl during playback.
Is that performance normal for a DX-2? I'm almost certain that the DX4-100 I had a few years ago could handle 22KHz/stereo/64kbps MP3s.
It's really quite amazing how much faster the Pentium is at MP3 decoding. A P100 had no problem playing 44KHz/stereo/320kbps MP3s, making it several times faster per cycle than the 486.
Anyone know of a fast AAC decoder for Win95?
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