Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 00:15:26 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is it that... Message-ID: <19980315001526.01926@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980315034112.280H-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from The Hermit Hacker on Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 03:47:42AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980315034112.280H-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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The Hermit Hacker scribbled this message on Mar 15: > > I finally picked up a SCSI CD to pull CD-DA tracks from my CDs to convert > into mp3's, and am wondering why tosha reports that my mp3 should be > ~1.8Meg, while the result of using mpeg_musicin to convert it to an mp3 > works out to be almost 5Meg? > > track playing start end raw size mp3 size # of > number time sector sector in bytes 44 kbps frames ^^ > 1 5:41'25 0 25599 60211200 1877620 13067 > > Are the only tools for converting to mp3 that work under FreeBSD > mpeg_musicin and l3enc? Could there be enough of a difference between the > two to have this sort of result? because you provided a parameter that tells tosha to estimate the data rate of the mp3 at 44kbps... if you encode at 128kbps it will be about 2.9 times larger than 1.87megs... which is just over 5megs... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem Rev/FAX: +1 541 346 9237 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD Don't trust anyone you don't have the source for To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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