Re: RFS: splay -- Sound player for MPEG-1,2 layer 1,2,3
On 2004-07-06 John Hedges <john@drystone.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:45:17PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > On 2004-07-06 John Hedges <john@drystone.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I'd like to adopt splay, a command line mp3 player. I've updated the bug
> > > report (#246971) to reflect ITA but have a couple of questions before
> > > uploading.
> > [...]
> > I have not used and tested it but have just looked at package
> > description and website. How does splay differ from mpg321?
> splay is the fastest mp3 decoder I know of, using about one third the cpu
> required by mpg123 (based on woody packages).
I see.
You are mixing up mpg123 and mpg321 BTW. The former is fast and
non-free, the latter is slow (libmad, no FPU) and free. To make it
easy to mix this up /usr/bin/mpg123 is managed by dpkg-alternative,
i.e. invoking mpg123 will start mpg321 if installed.
> I just tried mplayer so now know of a faster one :)
mplayer's MP3 decoder mp3lib is based on mpglib which is a part of
mpg123. While mpg123 is nonfree, its mp3-decoding engine is not.
(xmms also uses it.) Sadly I do not know a free commandline mp3-player
in Debian based on mpglib.
> This makes splay more suitable than mpg123 when decoding to files or
> when using slower hardware. Mainly I use epia based MiniITX as mp3
> players, but the tests below are on a P4:
> john@desk:~$ time mpg123 -s 1.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1
> real 0m6.278s
> user 0m6.260s
> sys 0m0.000s
I bet this slow "mpg123" is a mpg321. ;-)
cu andreas
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