From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 28 01:56:38 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 25CB216A4DA for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:56:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 133F143D46 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:56:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k7S1uSYL079380; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:56:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k7S1uLFq079379; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:56:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:56:21 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Howard Jones Message-ID: <20060828015621.GA79317@thought.org> References: <20060827053654.GA60292@thought.org> <20060827060122.GA63679@ozzmosis.com> <20060827074946.GA60715@thought.org> <241DF2D9-F281-4AD5-90CE-BC23850360F2@hackmiester.com> <44F210BD.6040908@thingy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44F210BD.6040908@thingy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , andrew clarke , "hackmiester \(Hunter Fuller\)" , 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: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:56:38 -0000 On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:38:05PM +0100, Howard Jones wrote: > 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. Well, if/when you *do* try, please clue me in. --I'm too new to DVD's and tooo che--er, thrifty to buy a ten pack of blanks. I'm not sure that I have three hours of "favorites"; probably, but no more. Most of my favorite tunes are on tape--pre-recorded and hi-fidelity, but the problem is turnning analogue to digital. Anyway, good to know that DVD's can "play" datafiles! gary > > Howie -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix