From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 27 21:38:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5295E16A4DA for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:38:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: from mail.thingy.com (wotsit.thingy.com [212.21.100.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 732EE43D62 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:38:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: (qmail 2457 invoked by uid 0); 27 Aug 2006 21:38:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.12?) (212.46.145.34) by wotsit3.thingy.com with SMTP; 27 Aug 2006 21:38:05 -0000 Message-ID: <44F210BD.6040908@thingy.com> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:38:05 +0100 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Macintosh/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)" References: <20060827053654.GA60292@thought.org> <20060827060122.GA63679@ozzmosis.com> <20060827074946.GA60715@thought.org> <241DF2D9-F281-4AD5-90CE-BC23850360F2@hackmiester.com> In-Reply-To: <241DF2D9-F281-4AD5-90CE-BC23850360F2@hackmiester.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gary Kline , andrew clarke , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:38:08 -0000 hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: > On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote: >> --Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's >> onto one Very long-playing disk. > > That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you couldn't read > in a normal CD drive... and I really don't know how exactly you would > do it either... Not necessarily. Both of my current DVD players can play a DVD full of MP3 files. One is a Pioneer, and the other is a more 'random' brand DVD/DiVX player. The Pioneer does a better job, but both will "play" data discs of MP3, WMA, JPEG and MPEG1 amongst other things. Another possibility would be to convert to MP2 audio and make a minimal video stream to go alongside the audio - say, a black screen, and make a DVD Video disk using something like transcode. I don't know what the bare minimum video bitrate is for DVD, but I know you can get a good few hours that way, in a format that would play on any DVD player. I've been meaning to try this for ages. Howie