From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 16:15:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F4237B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:15:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A0343E3B for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:15:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6NNFLIO012762; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:15:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:15:21 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Gary Dunn Cc: Drew Tomlinson , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: MP3 Conversion Port? Message-ID: <20020723231521.GB62770@dan.emsphone.com> References: <01e801c2325a$dec62c10$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> <20020723151633.GF82383@dan.emsphone.com> <1027461276.32212.30.camel@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1027461276.32212.30.camel@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 23), Gary Dunn said: > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 05:16, Dan Nelson wrote: > ... > > remember you're going to lose quite a bit of quality, as lame will > > try and encode the artifacts on the first mp3, plus add its own as > > it tries to lower the bitrate. Don't re-encode unless you need to > > play them on something that simply can't handle the higher bitrate. > > Such as? BTW, this is related to why JPEG files cannot be edited > without turning weird. I was thinking of portable mp3-players that might only expect to be handed low-bitrate mpegs generated by the software that came with them. I don't know if any exist that can't handle high bitrates, though. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message