Re: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface

[Andrew Hobgood]

> If that were the case, then you would be able to encode MP3 streams that
> sound as good as ATRAC 4 (which they do not) in real time on your desktop
> (which you cannot at this time).  As I mentioned previously, a Pentium II
> running at 400MHz is capable of turning SPDIF into 128Kbps MP3 in real
> time, if it is not doing anything else.  The particular machine in question
> is a 64Mb system with fast/wide SCSI (so, no bottleneck there), using LAME.
> 128Kbps MP3s do not sound nearly as good as ATRAC 4, so I have to say that
> the computational loads are not comparable.

Well, FWIW, I can do realtime at 128, 192, and 256kbps with the 8hz-mp3
encoder on my Alpha (21164A, 533MHz, UW-SCSI), but that still doesn't mean
that the computational load is "light" by any stretch.

/Andrew

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