On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Jon Drukman wrote:
quoted 3 lines the only problem with mpeg is that you need a fast CPU to decode at full
> the only problem with mpeg is that you need a fast CPU to decode at full
> quality in real time. a pentium or power pc can handle it, no sweat. but
> a 486 or 68040 might not be able to get to full 44.1/16bit/stereo levels.
I am still running a 68030 Amiga; prob'ly some of you programmers esp. in
Europe have one also. I downloaded a 4 or 5 minute track by Severed Heads
a while back, and it took over 12 hours (!) to decode to AIFF. A 68040 is
maybe 8x faster, but even so... (Maybe time for a new computer, eh? I've
grown quite fluid with the old sequencing software, though -- the learning
curve would defeat the speed advantages for a while)
As I just told Jon privately, his track survives reasonably well in
RealAudio 28.8. I think it was Derrick May I heard do a set a few months
ago, and it also was sparse enough to survive. On the other hand, I tried
to encode part of one of my tracks, very dense as many are, and it came
out like digital hash..
A handful of grainy, 22KHz/8-bit files of some of my industrial-noise-
techno-rock material is available thru the URL below. None of the heavy
techno-ish stuff is represented yet, but that's coming up soon. I'll let
you folks know.
--Mark
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