> > > Core: MZ104 from tri-m. The power consumption kicks ass, its got barely > > enuff power, I think, to squeeze out some MP3 playing capability. > > I dunno about mp3 but I think it will be fast enough to drive > my LCD menus with Java and monitor my home sensors from SF ... > (it may be too slow for mp3) > I've gotten mp3's working on a pentium 60 with 24 megs of ram already, it was a bear, I hadda downsample everything, and if I clicked on a menu (this was under win95), the audio would skip and jump and other fun things. My general intention is to have an "mp3 mode," possibly even a seperate runlevel, to do this. I don't plan on running many daemons, and will skip X for the majority of the time as well. I will try using -singlemix and -b (buffer) in mpg123 to make them as resource-unintensive as possible. I am hoping the slim-ness of having built up my system from scratch will also eliminate anything I do not have running from wasting resources. Plus, I won't run emacs while MP3-ing ;) My only real concern is the I/O performance of the microdrive or my external storage, thats one reason I'm going to make sure I use a nice big buffer. And if it doesn't work, maybe it'll be time to start hacking one of the cheaper Rio clones :) Either way, I need to stop talking and start building... but that damn money thing keeps getting in my way... -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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