From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 23 10:56:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA07772 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 10:56:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA07767 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 10:56:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA18699; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:56:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:56:18 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199611231856.NAA18699@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: toor@dyson.iquest.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stereo RealAudio for FreeBSD! Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.hackers References: <577d51$h77@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: >I have been playing with the raencoder for Linux, and it works great >on FreeBSD. (Note that I had to brand the static ELF binary.) Also, >I have run some careful tests on ra quality, and maybe it is better >than I could do with 128Kb/sec, but the CD quality sure sounds like >FM quality to me... (Strange hi-freq artifacts.) However, it is >cool to be able to compress alot of sound by a factor of approx >(10-25):1, and it still sound tolerable. Might I suggest that RA sucks for any high quality audio,a nd you should instead use MPEG audio streams, which at 112kbps sound virtually indistinguishable from the real CD source, and works with maplay or xing streamworks. RA is fine for low low bandwidth, but Xing! is much much MUCH (and standards based) better than RA for high quality streams. -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich