Comment Re:MP3 player offloaded to hardware? (Score 1) 168
Surely there is more at stake here than the CPU usage?
If the soundcard could do the decoding then you'd only be sending 3 or 4 megs over the PCI bus rather than 30 or 40 megs. Would this not be a good thing?
If the soundcard could do the decoding then you'd only be sending 3 or 4 megs over the PCI bus rather than 30 or 40 megs. Would this not be a good thing?