Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:15:21 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Gary Dunn <knowtree@aloha.com> Cc: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MP3 Conversion Port? Message-ID: <20020723231521.GB62770@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1027461276.32212.30.camel@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil> References: <01e801c2325a$dec62c10$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> <20020723151633.GF82383@dan.emsphone.com> <1027461276.32212.30.camel@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil>
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In the last episode (Jul 23), Gary Dunn said: > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 05:16, Dan Nelson wrote: > ... > > remember you're going to lose quite a bit of quality, as lame will > > try and encode the artifacts on the first mp3, plus add its own as > > it tries to lower the bitrate. Don't re-encode unless you need to > > play them on something that simply can't handle the higher bitrate. > > Such as? BTW, this is related to why JPEG files cannot be edited > without turning weird. I was thinking of portable mp3-players that might only expect to be handed low-bitrate mpegs generated by the software that came with them. I don't know if any exist that can't handle high bitrates, though. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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