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To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Anyone have any MPEG encoders available? 
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 21:33:46 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Which is why when I found the stuff a couple years back I tried to push it re
al
> hard, but for whever reason it doesnt seem to have taken off :( :(

Perhaps people were seduced by the lure of Level III  :-)

In any case, yes, I can recommend this encoder/decoder highly - it
really needs to be a port and live under /usr/ports/audio so that
people might find it more easily..  Hint hint.. :-)

> 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
!

With these compression ratios, I can hardly argue!  I could put my entire
CD collection into 30GB of disk space! :-)

						Jordan