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Posted: July 01 2006,03:43 |
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Ajan: it is likely that it is possible to play MP3s. However it is unlikely that you will be able to play them at full quality. I have an old 486 laptop at 75 mhz with 24 megs of RAM. Runs windows 98. I can use WinAmp to play MP3s, but I have to downsample them in order to get any kind of player performance out of it. Downsample to 11khz (about the quality of AM radio), and you can listen to music while running internet explorer.
How this will work in Damn Small Linux, I don't know. I believe that XMMS has a way to downsample music. I recommend you start with XMMS. If you get any chop, first kill the GUI stuff- like scrolling file info, the mixer, the equalizer screen, any shaddowing, icon animation etc. This will reduce CPU load. Then start killing off quality- look for an option like half-fidelity.
Finally look around for your sound chip and double check it is supported under Linux- the ALSA page is a great resource for this. Sometimes laptops can use funky sound systems that aren't supported as well under Linux.
Last thing: no way to be sure DSL will like having only 16 megs RAM- you will be cutting it close in any event. I highly recommend you get some swap space on that machine and install DSL as quickly as you can.
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