[plug] MP3

[Mark Saxon]

Thanks for the all the advice. I was able to get Cdparanoia, bladeenc
and LAME all working together quite quickly I used Grip as a front end
it all works pretty well. Surprisingly easy... may be this means I'm
approaching my 1st dan in linux? More likely a fluke :)

Mark






bk wrote:
> 
> > However... There's a marvellous new piece of software - LAME - Lame
> > Ain't an MP3 Encoder ;
> 
> Yeah, it's quite good. I was attempting to figure out how to encode
> realtime and found this beautiful encoder. I gave up on the non-gpl mp3
> encoders since they didn't support STDIN/STDOUT.
> 
> > It's distributed as GPL'ed patches to the freely available ISO sources,
> > rather than reimplementing the patented MPEG Audio Layer III routines
> > directly. To get people up and running, there's a very unofficial set
> > of precompiled binaries at ;
> >
> > http://hive.me.gu.edu.au/not_lame/
> 
> I've made .deb's for lame. They're available at
> http://www.apolloweb.net/xk/slink. If you want anything recompiled for
> slink, yell at me. Also, xfree 3.3.4 for slink(glibc2.0) is in the
> x334-slink directory.
> 
> > > It's wonderfully fast - 25% over realtime on each of my dual Celeron
> > 300A's, faster still on some sounds (eg spoken words - over triple
> 
> So 75% (or 25%?) CPU utilization at 128kbit? I can get the CPU utilization
> to an average of 40% (last time I checked [dual 451mhz celeron]) with
> pentium optimizations.
> 
> -David (bk at bofh.ns.ca).

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