Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:56:21 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>, "hackmiester \(Hunter Fuller\)" <hackmiester@hackmiester.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3 Message-ID: <20060828015621.GA79317@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <44F210BD.6040908@thingy.com> References: <20060827053654.GA60292@thought.org> <20060827060122.GA63679@ozzmosis.com> <20060827074946.GA60715@thought.org> <241DF2D9-F281-4AD5-90CE-BC23850360F2@hackmiester.com> <44F210BD.6040908@thingy.com>
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:38:05PM +0100, Howard Jones wrote: > hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: > >On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote: > >>--Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's > >> onto one Very long-playing disk. > > > >That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you couldn't read > >in a normal CD drive... and I really don't know how exactly you would > >do it either... > > Not necessarily. Both of my current DVD players can play a DVD full of > MP3 files. One is a Pioneer, and the other is a more 'random' brand > DVD/DiVX player. The Pioneer does a better job, but both will "play" > data discs of MP3, WMA, JPEG and MPEG1 amongst other things. > > Another possibility would be to convert to MP2 audio and make a minimal > video stream to go alongside the audio - say, a black screen, and make a > DVD Video disk using something like transcode. I don't know what the > bare minimum video bitrate is for DVD, but I know you can get a good few > hours that way, in a format that would play on any DVD player. I've been > meaning to try this for ages. Well, if/when you *do* try, please clue me in. --I'm too new to DVD's and tooo che--er, thrifty to buy a ten pack of blanks. I'm not sure that I have three hours of "favorites"; probably, but no more. Most of my favorite tunes are on tape--pre-recorded and hi-fidelity, but the problem is turnning analogue to digital. Anyway, good to know that DVD's can "play" datafiles! gary > > Howie -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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