Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:27:24 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone have any MPEG encoders available? Message-ID: <199602170527.AAA07968@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <9984.824532278@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 16, 96 08:44:38 pm
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> Yes, indeed! Just to give some results: > > jkh@time-> ls -l wrong.wav > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 42705308 Feb 15 00:00 wrong.wav > > [A CD tune I recorded as a test] > > jkh@time-> ls -l stereo-wrong.mp2 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 jkh jkh 3873509 Feb 16 20:16 stereo-wrong.mp2 > > That's a LOT of compression! ;-) > > I've spent a lot of time listening to both versions now and I swear > I can't tell the difference! Which is why when I found the stuff a couple years back I tried to push it real hard, but for whever reason it doesnt seem to have taken off :( :( There is good news though, the Xing! Streamworks client/server uses mpeg layer 1&2 for video/audio compression, and will play back normal mpegaudio encoded streams just peachy. So there is hope for the format! Down with aiff/au/wav! -Crh
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