I put together a cheep computer for my car with parts from General Nanosystems (and a few I had lying around), they had a nice integrated board sound, vid, ect.. I was able to get the board, cpu and, ram, for just over $150. the video on the board has since craped out on me, but luckily the sound still works. And don't flame me to bad for using an integrated board (it has only 3 pci, lol), I didn't want a case that was too big (made my own) and I didn't want to have to worry about cards getting loose and frying. Any questions feel free to ask me. -----Original Message----- From: Austad, Jay [mailto:austad at marketwatch.com] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 12:33 PM To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' Subject: RE: [TCLUG:22703] Dedicated MP3 distro project? 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 $100 and strip the guts out of it and put them in a smaller case. Jay -----Original Message----- From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:esper at sherohman.org] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 12:27 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22703] Dedicated MP3 distro project? On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:38:53AM -0500, Bill Layer wrote: > From what I gather, I should not need > more than a 486DX-2/66 with about 8-12MB of RAM to do the job. A data point for you: I've built a MP3 jukebox out of a P100. Running mpg123 on the console (i.e., no X overhead) sucks ~20% CPU. I would suggest you consider a P60 or maybe a DX4/100 as you minimum hardware rather than going for the DX2/66. (The P100 is also capable of ripping/encoding new mp3s while playing without causing any skips in playback. Another nice feature you may want to have avaliable...) -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r++ y+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org