Short: MPEG audio decoder w/ source; supports layer I-III Author: kai_rode@pluribus.wupper.de Uploader: kai_rode pluribus wupper de Type: mus/misc Architecture: m68k-amigaos This is a no-changes port of the Fraunhofer Institute MPEG audio decoder, Version 4.1. It supports compression layers 1-3. The MPEG-audio compression standard provides exceptional compression ratios for audio samples of 32 KHz (DAT-LP), 44.1 KHz (CD) and 48 KHz (DAT-SP). The only disadvantage of MPEG-compression is the sloooow speed. This decoder takes 1:28 minutes on a A4000/040/28(WARP) to decompress the included example which is a 15-second mono sample in CD-Quality (44.1 KHz). Included is the full sourcecode, three executables (68000/FFP, 68020/IEEE and 68040/internal FPU) and an example file compressed using layer 2 compression. Suggested way for playing MPEG-samples on the amiga: Decoding using this program: - Start decode0x0 - Type the name of the compressed sample (eg. foobar.mp2) - Type the name for the decompressed sample (foobar.sw) - Type "n" twice Converting using AmiSOX: - Type "sox -r 44100 foobar.sw foobar.wav" Playing using Play16: - Type "play16 foobar.wav fast hifi" This way, you can listen to the samples in 14-bit-quality, which you cant if you convert to 8SVX. If you want more MPEG-files, try: http://www.iuma.com This is the adress of the Internet Underground Music Archive, which contains many freely distributable pieces of high quality music. The example file is also from there.