Re: xmms optimisation

2000-07-29 Thread Philip Blundell
>Yup, indeed. I presume xmms does indeed use floating-point maths in >its decoding. Would a quick antidote to be to compile with the soft- >float library, or are the ramifications going to be too horrible? That's unlikely to gain you the kind of performance you need, unfortunately. The soft-flo

Re: Auto-builders

2000-07-29 Thread Philip Blundell
>It's possible whatever Frank Smith fixed (`linker segfault') here: > >is one and the same, if this helps. It's hard to tell. There's no obvious sign of any change at all in the source code, and I can't find a copy of the original 2.9.5.0.37 to compare against. p.

Re: xmms optimisation

2000-07-29 Thread Philip Blundell
>Has anyone worked on any optimised ARM routines for MP3 decoding in xmms? >I notice it's not fast enough as it stands on a 200MHz StrongARM; this seems >pretty bad to me. The time-consuming part of MPEG decode is usually the DCT. There is a fixed-point implementation of this in Nicolas Pitre's