Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 03:20:21 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Stereo RealAudio for FreeBSD! Message-ID: <199611240820.DAA00385@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199611231954.OAA19269@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Nov 23, 96 02:54:45 pm
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> > MPEG doesnt drop to 28.8... > > Im not interested in low bandwidth <128kbps audio transmissions because even > the best are unnacceptable to me. I can listen to kissFM finland at ~110kbps > and listen to perfect stereo CD music thats just incredible. Im a high quality > kinda guy :) > I have been trying to find any major negative artifacts using mpeg at 384 and really can't find any (sounds really good.) I am going to have to go to serious A/B to find the defects. Of course, some of your (or someones) comments about the mpeg process degrading pretty quickly below 128 or so appears to be true. However, music is quite recognizable, and would be tolerable on cheap speakers or in a car perhaps at 96 or so... Really really thanks for the pointer to the mpeg stuff, because frankly, I find that the 384 sounds really good, and saves about 4:1 on diskspace, and takes about 1/4 or less of the time of my audio AGC (various processing) playthings... I would use 160, but I don't want to risk the quality unnecessarily, because I know that I will soon hear problems there (don't have golden ears, but I can distinguish things pretty well -- and cr*ppy sound bugs me terribly.) Also, it appears that 128 would be quite tolerable for casual listening. Sorry if this is boring for all you multimedia software experts, but I am a bit of a newbie in this stuff, finally PC hardware appears to start becoming really interesting for playing with all the ideas that this frustrated ex-EE has been having over the years... John
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