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- mpega 1.1 (09-Sep-1995) (68020+)
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- Distribution Conditions
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- This program is copyright (c) 1995 by Stephane TAVENARD.
- It may be distributed freely under the condition that no profit is
- gained from its distribution, nor from any other program distributed
- in the same package.
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- Permission is granted to distribute this package by Bulletin Board
- systems or network sites, under the condition that no fee is charged
- on downloading it.
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- All files that are part of this package have to be distributed
- together and none of them may be changed in any way other than
- archiving or crunching. The only exception to this rule are the
- icons, including the tooltypes, which may be changed to accommodate
- them to the rest of the disk it is distributed on.
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- This program is distibuted as freeware.
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- Disclamer
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- This package is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.
- The author assumes no responsibility or liability whatsoever
- for any damage or dataloss caused by using this package.
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- Introduction
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- What is MPEG audio ?
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- It's a very efficient audio compression standard. Actually, there is 3
- compression methods, named layer I, II & III. Layer III is more efficient
- than layer II, witch is more efficient than layer I. But, more efficient
- means more complex. For this reasons, Layer III is not implemented yet.
- MPEG audio allows to compress a 16-bits PCM sound file from 1.2 to
- 32 times.
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- Why is it so hard to make a real time MPEG audio decoder ?
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- MPEG audio decoding requires a lot of arithmetic calculation, so a lot of CPU
- power is required. Normally, MPEG audio decoding is made with help of a DSP.
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- History
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- V1.0 23-Jun-1995 First aminet release
- V1.1 09-Sep-1995 Added mixing audio output. For example, it can play at
- 28000Hz a 11025Hz decoded stream (-d4 option).
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- Description
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- You need at least a 68020 CPU to use it !
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- This is an highly optimized MPEG audio decoder. This one can decode MPEG audio
- standard streams, layer I & II. The output can be either a raw PCM file, an AIFF
- file or AMIGA-built in audio device. The output samples can be 16 or 8 bits wide
- (for audio 16 bits are reduced to 14 bits, due to hardware limitations).
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- Some results:
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- on my A1200/GVPTurboI 68030/40MHz/4Mo Fast RAM,
- SCSI Hard drives with Squirrel interface:
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- Bitstream parameters field is <layer>/<bitrate>/<sfreq>/<mode>
- <bitrate> is in kbits/sec
- <sfreq> is in kHz
- <mode> are M:mono (=single channel), S:stereo, J:joint-stereo, D:dual-channel
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- Options are the options that follows the mpega command
- Decoding output was always a ram file.
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- Name | Parameters | Duration | Options | CPU Time used
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- FRIENDLY.MP2 | 2/032/44/M | 10.24 s | -d1 -q2 | 16.38 s
- FRIENDLY.MP2 | 2/032/44/M | 10.24 s | -d1 -q1 | 11.46 s
- FRIENDLY.MP2 | 2/032/44/M | 10.24 s | -d1 -q0 | 8.94 s
- FRIENDLY.MP2 | 2/032/44/M | 10.24 s | -d2 -q2 | 8.50 s
- FRIENDLY.MP2 | 2/032/44/M | 10.24 s | -d2 -q1 | 6.04 s
- FRIENDLY.MP2 | 2/032/44/M | 10.24 s | -d2 -q0 | 4.82 s
- FRIENDLY.MP2 | 2/032/44/M | 10.24 s | -d4 -q2 | 4.78 s
- FRIENDLY.MP2 | 2/032/44/M | 10.24 s | -d4 -q1 | 3.56 s
- FRIENDLY.MP2 | 2/032/44/M | 10.24 s | -d4 -q0 | 2.94 s
- DEMO_AUD.MP2 | 2/112/44/S | 32.29 s | -d4 -q1 | 25.36 s
- THINGS.MP1 | 1/128/44/S | 10.03 s | -d4 -q1 | 9.82 s
- IBYT_78S.MP2 | 2/224/44/S | 20.38 s | -d4 -q1 | 18.36 s
- THINGS.MP2 | 2/128/44/J | 23.30 s | -d4 -q1 | 18.34 s
- ex32.mp2 | 2/032/44/M | 15.86 s | -d2 -q1 | 9.38 s
- excerpt-Love_Supreme.mp2 | 2/096/44/M | 15.86 s | -d2 -q1 | 11.62 s
- GREETING.MP2 | 2/064/44/M | 6.79 s | -d2 -q1 | 4.56 s
- TEST.MP2 | 2/064/44/M | 15.18 s | -d2 -q1 | 9.94 s
- ex384.mp2 | 2/384/44/M | 7.86 s | -d2 -q1 | 7.30 s
- 2001.mp2 | 2/080/32/S | 93.24 s | -d4 -q1 | 51.76 s
- dune32.mp2 | 2/032/32/M | 66.53 s | -d2 -q1 | 30.98 s
- shimmering.mp2 | 2/056/32/M | 43.27 s | -d2 -q1 | 22.76 s
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- Thanks to my friend, AMIGA, the best computer ever made.
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- Stéphane TAVENARD (ANGERS/France)
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