Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 04:41:59 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is it that... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980315043940.280Q-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <19980315001526.01926@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker scribbled this message on Mar 15:
> >
> > I finally picked up a SCSI CD to pull CD-DA tracks from my CDs to convert
> > into mp3's, and am wondering why tosha reports that my mp3 should be
> > ~1.8Meg, while the result of using mpeg_musicin to convert it to an mp3
> > works out to be almost 5Meg?
> >
> > track playing start end raw size mp3 size # of
> > number time sector sector in bytes 44 kbps frames
> ^^
> > 1 5:41'25 0 25599 60211200 1877620 13067
> >
> > Are the only tools for converting to mp3 that work under FreeBSD
> > mpeg_musicin and l3enc? Could there be enough of a difference between the
> > two to have this sort of result?
>
> because you provided a parameter that tells tosha to estimate the data
> rate of the mp3 at 44kbps... if you encode at 128kbps it will be about
> 2.9 times larger than 1.87megs... which is just over 5megs...
Oh, okay...then I guess the next question I have to ask is "what
is thte difference"? It might be a stupid question to some, but this is
still all new to me :(
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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