7 MPG123, MISCELLANEOUS, MPEG audio fast real-time player   F **********************************************************************F * MPEG 1.0/2.0 _AUDIO_ PLAYER, V0.59n                                *F *                                                                    *F * (full?) MPEG 1.0/2.0, Layer 1,2 and 3 support                      *F * Layer-3 realtime only with a 'fast' machine                        *F * Since April 97, 128kbit j-stereo should work on a 486DX4-120.      *F * With 2:1 down-sampling or using the downmix-mode even a 486DX2-66  *F * should play such a stream in realtime!                             *F *                                                                    *F * I still claim to have the fastest MPEG Audio Player for UNIX ;)    *F **********************************************************************   written/modfied by: >    Michael Hipp (email: Michael.Hipp@student.uni-tuebingen.de)6    Oliver Fromme <oliver.fromme@heim3.tu-clausthal.de>L     (several enhancements, man pages, Makefile, FreeBSD port, License, etc.)  D MPEG 123 V 0.59.O Port under OpenVMS Alpha               August 1998* ==========================================  > Mpeg 123 is an Mpeg Audio layer I, II and III real-time player  E It is  only available with OpenVMS Alpha systems with a 16 bits sound M card and MMOV (MultiMedia services for OpenVMS) installed (Alphastations 200,  250, 255, 500, 600)   O On Alphastation 255 4/233, real time playing of an Mpeg-2 file gives about 22 % O On Alphastation 255 4/233, real time playing of an Mpeg-3 file gives about 26 %   J We can note than Mpeg123 is a bit faster than Mpeg3play with Mpeg Layer IIE streams, but near twice than Mpeg3play with Mpeg Layer III streams !!   @ Another nive feature of Mpeg123, it can downsample in real-time.  2 This kit contains sources, object and executables.   Enjoy !!   Patrick Moreau   pmoreau@cena.dgac.fr moreau_p@decus.fr   