Subject: Re: MP3 encoding performance
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@burghcom.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/01/2001 15:04:39
Oh you're ripping and encoding at the same time?  I swear that's the worst
idea in the world.  All the trashy mp3s you can find that have skips and
POPs, that's why.  Buffer over/under-flows, etc.

Do us a favor and be sure to use the "-crc" flag on blade ;-)

--lava

On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Peter Seebach wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.30.0109011118130.10081-100000@main.burghcom.com>, "Brian
>  A. Seklecki" writes:
> >What encoder are you using?  Use bladenc, everything else, including
> >Fraunhaufer, is...well, it's commercial, so it's spoken for...
>
> I have been experimenting with lame and bladeenc.
>
> Since I wrote the original request, I discovered that I need to tell cdda2wav
> to do some jitter correction... and I am no longer noticing or worrying about
> the MP3 encoding speed, because I'm doing my old CD's, and some of them are
> *very* slow to read.  I've got one that's been doing about 150k a *minute* for
> the last hour.
>
> -s
>
>

--Brian

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