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Date:      Sun, 15 Mar 1998 00:15:26 -0800
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why is it that...
Message-ID:  <19980315001526.01926@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980315034112.280H-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from The Hermit Hacker on Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 03:47:42AM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980315034112.280H-100000@thelab.hub.org>

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The Hermit Hacker scribbled this message on Mar 15:
> 
> I finally picked up a SCSI CD to pull CD-DA tracks from my CDs to convert
> into mp3's, and am wondering why tosha reports that my mp3 should be
> ~1.8Meg, while the result of using mpeg_musicin to convert it to an mp3
> works out to be almost 5Meg?
> 
>  track   playing  start    end     raw size  mp3 size   # of
>  number   time    sector  sector   in bytes   44 kbps  frames
						^^
>     1    5:41'25       0   25599   60211200   1877620   13067
> 
> Are the only tools for converting to mp3 that work under FreeBSD
> mpeg_musicin and l3enc?  Could there be enough of a difference between the
> two to have this sort of result?

because you provided a parameter that tells tosha to estimate the data
rate of the mp3 at 44kbps...  if you encode at 128kbps it will be about
2.9 times larger than 1.87megs...  which is just over 5megs...

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