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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Anyone have any MPEG encoders available?
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:27:24 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <9984.824532278@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 16, 96 08:44:38 pm
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> Yes, indeed!  Just to give some results:
>
> jkh@time-> ls -l wrong.wav
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  42705308 Feb 15 00:00 wrong.wav
>
> [A CD tune I recorded as a test]
>
> jkh@time-> ls -l stereo-wrong.mp2
> -rw-rw-r--  1 jkh  jkh  3873509 Feb 16 20:16 stereo-wrong.mp2
>
> That's a LOT of compression! ;-)
>
> I've spent a lot of time listening to both versions now and I swear
> I can't tell the difference!

Which is why when I found the stuff a couple years back I tried to push it real
hard, but for whever reason it doesnt seem to have taken off :( :(

There is good news though, the Xing! Streamworks client/server uses mpeg layer
1&2 for video/audio compression, and will play back normal mpegaudio encoded
streams just peachy.  So there is hope for the format!  Down with aiff/au/wav!

-Crh