From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jul 21 3:12: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from uni-sb.de (uni-sb.de [134.96.252.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 306B41546A for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 03:11:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netchild@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE) Received: from cs.uni-sb.de (cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.252.31]) by uni-sb.de (8.9.3/1999070600) with ESMTP id MAA26986; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:06:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de (wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.247.1]) by cs.uni-sb.de (8.9.3/1999031900) with ESMTP id MAA27558; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:06:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de (IDENT:PyRvybxFBcwstxcZABAgEWiCmYZWaUdR@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de (8.9.1/8.9.1/wjp-SVR4/1998063000) with ESMTP id MAA01007; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:06:25 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199907211006.MAA01007@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:06:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: Blade Encoder speed To: durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us Cc: doconnor@gsoft.com.au, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <37953B26.7C7A57C8@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20 Jul, James C. Durham wrote: > 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-) . If you only want to archive them (instead of stream them over the net), what about an encoder with VBR (e.g. Lame, http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/)? Here (PII-266) it encodes at about 0.6 times of play-speed. You should also have a look at the homepage and read a little bit about the quality. Bye, Alexander. -- http://netchild.home.pages.de A.Leidinger @ WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message