Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:32:20 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Unix vs Windows...slightly disappointing results... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903120930240.7045-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990312232637.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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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
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