Re: [NTLK] AAC? Speaking of MP3's and compression

From: Mark Benson (markbenson_at_mac.com)
Date: Tue Oct 28 2003 - 13:34:09 PST

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On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 09:01 PM, Goodwin, Greg wrote:

> Interesting. Anyway, better compression, higher quality sound,
> but what is known about it, and in by those that have looked into
> this, would the Newton have the power to read this compression?

Playing a 168kbps AAC is enough to use over 50% of the CPU cycles on a
G3/400, I doubt it'd even work on an iPaq very well, let alone a Newton.

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