From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Mar 15 00:42:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA02170 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 00:42:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (tc-36.acadiau.ca [131.162.2.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA02164 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 00:42:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.8/8.8.2) with SMTP id EAA02100; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 04:41:59 -0400 (AST) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 04:41:59 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: John-Mark Gurney cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is it that... In-Reply-To: <19980315001526.01926@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message