From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 12 5:33:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat196.27.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.196.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B08E15169 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 05:32:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA46688; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:32:20 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:32:20 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Unix vs Windows...slightly disappointing results... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 12-Mar-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > FreeBSD is on a PII-266, using a couple of different encoders (most > > recent: bladeenc), its takes ~20min per track, not including RIP time. > > > > WinNT 4.0 Workstation, on a Pentium 166...it takes ~5 minutes to RIP *and* > > encode that same track, including what the software calls "normalizing". > > > > Both are idle machines whil ethis is happening... > > > > Why does it take a quarter of the time under WinNT? > Hmm.. well depends on the software.. Xing's older mp3 compressor used > to filter out anything above 16khz :) I'm using this one, and it reports that it goes up to 20khz ... sound quality appears fine... > Perhaps a listen test is in order. > > Also, which encoder under FreeBSD? As mentiond above...bladeenc :) > I use bladenc, and on a PII-350 I get about 1:3.1 time (ie 1 min of real audio takes 3.1 > minutes to compress) Am using a Pentium 166, tohoguh, for the WinNT machine, so would expect to get substantially worst timings then my PII-266 FreeBSD box...no? Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message