Re: TI-H: New calc design

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: New calc design
From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 18:51:07 -0700
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


That won't work.  Mel and I already tried it.  The only way to do it is to
reprogram the code.  Commented Source code for mp3 de/coding is illegal.
You have to buy the $150 book.  There is no way arround it.  Then go to
college, then try it...

>Or...
>Get WinAmp, read the section in the about screen's about Amp
>Download the source to Amp, rip out all the MP3 decoding parts
>Now that you've got the decoding parts, continue from Grant's part about
>graduating college (well...it seem4ed like a good idea until i thought about
>turning it into a circuit).
>
>-- Jon Olson
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: Saturday, March 07, 1998 6:47 AM
>Subject: RE: TI-H: New calc design
>
>
>>
>>>Apparently, MP3 uses floating point.
>>
>>...you plan on doing mp3 decoding?  A Mach 60MHz DSP can hardly handle it.
>>It takes atleast a 100MHz 486 DX to decode 16bit 44KHz... and you can't do
>>anything but MP3s on that slow of a processor.
>>
>>Decoding mp3s is hard.:
>>1.  Pay $150 to purchase decoding standards (ie: not free)
>>2.  Graduate from a college (take the hardest EE course)
>>3.  Then maybe you could do it.
>>
>>Mel is trying to do it and hes going nowhere.  Interfacing a duck to a
>>calculator would be easier.
>>
>>
>>

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