Re: Where's lame
Robert Voigt wrote:
> > > Forget MP3, Ogg Vorbis is better as it is free :
> > >
> > > http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html
> >
> > I know, but my custom-build hardware won't play it. Too bad.
>
> Custom hardware? Is that correct? Perhaps Vorbis should be portet to it ;)
Okay, I already replied off-list, so before I have to write the same
stuff over and over again, here's the scoop. Oh, and I'm afraid, that
Vorbis can't be easily ported to it. However, when there are hardware
Ogg players, one could easily extend that piece. Are there any hardware
Vorbis players around?
-------- Original Message --------
The German computer magazine c't once had an article on how to build a
hardware mp3 player which could be powered by even a 286. It sends the
mp3 stream to the parallel port and some circuitry decodes the mp3
stream to music. The chipset is the same as in various mp3 players. It
also features a remote control and a LCD display.
I haven't totally completed the thing yet, but it decodes the MP3s
perfectly. There's Linux support, so I'm planning to put the thing and
an old 486 mainboard I have into a 2-HE-case together with a bootable
network card.
If your German is good enough, here's the article:
http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/projekte/mp3player_1/default.shtml.
And a picture of the "custom circuitry":
http://www.heise.de/ct/99/09/200/pic08.jpg
Cheers,
Viktor
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Viktor Rosenfeld
WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
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