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Subject: Re: Anyone have any MPEG encoders available?
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:38:52 -0500 (EST)
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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/