I have a P90 toshiba laptop, and it won't play mp3's at all, even just using
mpg123 from the console.  Get yourself a used emachine for $100 and strip
the guts out of it and put them in a smaller case.

Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:esper at sherohman.org]
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 12:27 PM
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22703] Dedicated MP3 distro project?


On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:38:53AM -0500, Bill Layer wrote:
> From what I gather, I should not need 
> more than a 486DX-2/66 with about 8-12MB of RAM to do the job.

A data point for you:

I've built a MP3 jukebox out of a P100.  Running mpg123 on the console
(i.e.,
no X overhead) sucks ~20% CPU.  I would suggest you consider a P60 or maybe
a
DX4/100 as you minimum hardware rather than going for the DX2/66.  (The P100
is also capable of ripping/encoding new mp3s while playing without causing
any skips in playback.  Another nice feature you may want to have
avaliable...)

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