[plug] Xmms and mp3

[Jan Schmidt]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:17 +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> On 8/31/05, Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> > Can't remember who it was, but someone was asking about SUSE and .mp3
> > and XMMS. Well, I just noticed that YOU (Yast Online Update) gives an
> > option to download a "Multimedia Option pack 1", which contains xine-mad
> > which supplies .mp3 support to xine, and another component is
> > lib-xmms-mad which just may supply .mp3 support for xmms as well.
> > 
> 
> Just a warning. There is the mad decoder, and a mpg321 decoder. Both
> work, your millage my differ as to which is better. I can't rememeber
> atm which is better, and as I no longer have any MP3's handy (I have a
> lot of Ogg's) I can't test it for you.
> 
> Tim
> p.s. if you really want a test i'll do it for you.

What sort of test are you thinking? For the average pundit, both should
work fine. Of the two though, MAD gives more accurate decoding, with
lower CPU usage (not that you'd really notice the CPU usage difference
on a modern CPU)

J.
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Jan Schmidt <thaytan at noraisin.net>