[gst-devel] mpg123 GStreamer plugin

[Rafael Diniz]

AFAIK mpg123 is much faster them any other integer only decoder because of the 
use of floating point instructions. I remember to decode a 128kbps mp3 using a 
486 DX4 100MHz.



On Tuesday 16 March 2010 15:03:48 Marc Leeman wrote:
> > > I like to announce the new mpg123 based GStreamer mp3 decoder plugin.
>
> About 10 years ago, there was a library called mpg321 that did the
> decoding without floating point; we ported that to the then new C62xx
> DSPs. We only had to make a minor patch to it wrt stack usage (but that
> was specific for CPUs without a MMU unit).
>
> Guess that one would still be much better with the current 64-bit vector
> ops.