Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:38:52 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone have any MPEG encoders available? Message-ID: <199602170538.AAA08110@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <10196.824535226@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 16, 96 09:33:46 pm
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> In any case, yes, I can recommend this encoder/decoder highly - it
> really needs to be a port and live under /usr/ports/audio so that
> people might find it more easily.. Hint hint.. :-)
If someone would write a paint-by-numbers document on how the hell to make a
port, I have about 3 things I would do right now.
> With these compression ratios, I can hardly argue! I could put my entire
> CD collection into 30GB of disk space! :-)
:) Perfect use of a DAT tape backup. Think about it, you can seek a 90meter
DAT end to end in under 60 seconds, and at 4GB of data on that dat, you get
about 4000 minutes of audio on one DAT. Life is GOOD! :)
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/
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