Re: [ts-7000] ts-7300 as MP3 Player for FIRST Robotics

[Andrew Taylor <>]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:04:05PM +0000, Martin Guy wrote:
> mpg321: 43.1 seconds (on old-ABI system)
> mpg123: 39.1 seconds (on old-ABI system)
> mpg123: 16.45 seconds (on EABI-softfloat system)
> mpg321: 15.0 seconds (on EABI-softfloat system)
> madplay (-o file): 10.2 seconds (on either system)
> Come to think of it, if you have a fixed repertory of sound effects,
> why not store them as WAVs and use a lightweight thing like wavplay?

If compression is needed wavpack/wvunpack is fast on a old-ABI  ts7200.
It takes about 4 seconds to do uncompress a similar file (36s 196kbps).
It does lossy&lossless.

I'm using it to losslessly compress 4 channel 16khz/16bit sound on a
ts-7260 real-time and it takes about  30% of the CPU.

Andrew