Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:56:18 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: toor@dyson.iquest.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stereo RealAudio for FreeBSD! Message-ID: <199611231856.NAA18699@crh.cl.msu.edu> References: <577d51$h77@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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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
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Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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