Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:14:46 -0400 From: "James C. Durham" <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Blade Encoder speed Message-ID: <37953B26.7C7A57C8@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> References: <XFMail.990721130459.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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"Daniel J. O'Connor" wrote: > > On 21-Jul-99 James C. Durham wrote: > > Asking around at work (always *totally* accurate!) > > I was told it should take 2 or 3 minutes. > > > > This is on a P200MMX with 64 megs or RAM. > > You should express the compression time as a ratio of realtime to play vs > compression time.. > > I find I can get about 1:1 on a PII-350. I think the compressors for Windows > are much more optmized, or so it would seem.. > Hmmm.. In those terms, I'm saying that 3 minutes of play time (using the default 128K rate) takes about 15 minutes , or 5:1 . I'm loathe to have to boot M$ to encode. However, I have hundreds of hours of old audio tape I'd like to encode before it falls apart, but at that speed, it becomes a grueling task 8-) . -- Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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