Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:26:37 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Unix vs Windows...slightly disappointing results... Message-ID: <XFMail.990312232637.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903120847001.7045-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On 12-Mar-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > FreeBSD is on a PII-266, using a couple of different encoders (most > recent: bladeenc), its takes ~20min per track, not including RIP time. > > WinNT 4.0 Workstation, on a Pentium 166...it takes ~5 minutes to RIP *and* > encode that same track, including what the software calls "normalizing". > > Both are idle machines whil ethis is happening... > > Why does it take a quarter of the time under WinNT? Hmm.. well depends on the software.. Xing's older mp3 compressor used to filter out anything above 16khz :) Perhaps a listen test is in order. Also, which encoder under FreeBSD? I use bladenc, and on a PII-350 I get about 1:3.1 time (ie 1 min of real audio takes 3.1 minutes to compress) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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