3 Dec
2004
3 Dec
'04
2:33 p.m.
Henning Thielemann
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Jason Bailey wrote:
Would anyone know of packages out there for Haskell that support mp3's or ogg files?
Do you mean realtime unpacking and playback? I'm afraid without hacking Haskell programs are too slow for that.
Really? Written in C, mpg123 can decode 50 minutes of audio in 30 seconds (tested on a 1GHz PIII) -- would a Haskell implementaion really be 100x slower? (Although I agree that FFI'ing to an existing library does sound like the thing to do.) -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants