Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:43:53 -0500 From: "hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)" <hackmiester@hackmiester.com> To: Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3 Message-ID: <AA0AB924-3B3B-4CA3-8729-B2E1857635BC@hackmiester.com> In-Reply-To: <44F210BD.6040908@thingy.com> References: <20060827053654.GA60292@thought.org> <20060827060122.GA63679@ozzmosis.com> <20060827074946.GA60715@thought.org> <241DF2D9-F281-4AD5-90CE-BC23850360F2@hackmiester.com> <44F210BD.6040908@thingy.com>
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On 27 August 2006, at 16:38, Howard Jones wrote: > hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: >> 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. You bring up a good point, but that's not part of the DVD standard. > 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. The blank video would waste lots of space on the DVD, I think. > 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. That is true. > > Howie >
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