From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Feb 11 16:38:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E50537B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 16:38:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA14024; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:06:35 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200102091511.QAA40059@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:06:35 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Christoph Kukulies Subject: RE: wav to mp3 - tool under FreeBSD Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 09-Feb-01 Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I downloaded something which calls dist10 from www.8hz.com > but it's so poorly documented that I can't even find out > which one is the wav to mp3. I tried something called encoder > but the result of a 39 MB .wav file to .mpeg was disastrous. > > Does anyone know of a good and fast converter from .wav to .mp3? /usr/ports/audio/lame is IMHO the best :) dist10 is the original ISO code which is terribly coded and has encumbered code which LAME took and rewrote. It is much faster, and creates better quality mpegs. I use 'lame -V 1 -b 128 -h -m j -q1 infile.wav outfile.mp3' Which is fairly slow, if you stick to CBR (vs VBR) and turn off HQ mode you should be able to make it go substantially faster though. If you are running -current you can do dd if=/dev/acd0t1 bs=2352 | lame -r -x -V 1 -b 128 -h -m j -q1 - track_01.mp3 Which is pretty neat ;) --- 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-multimedia" in the body of the message