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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 03:15:07 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> >> Even DOS cdroast comes with a way to make wav into mp3.
> >
> >   In DOS, I would recommend using Bladeenc, or even Lame, to convert .WAV 
> > to .MP3.
> > And CD2WAV will rip the CD tracks into .WAV files.
> 
> I found both of these precompiled for DOS and even libc5. 

     Yes, I use both in DOS and Linux (making MP3s is a bit of a hobby).

> I used (once) 
> whatever came with DOS cdroast, and also cd2wav in DOS, but I could not 
> find any way to write .wav files to a CD in DOS.  

    I have a DOS package that is supposed to do all that, but I have not yet 
got it to work.
It requires a specific driver (which is included) to be loaded before it can 
write to my IDE CD burner, and it got to be too complicated. So I have only 
been burning CDs with Linux.

> >   BTW: Sindi, I doubt that most MP3 players will do a good job on 
> > streaming MP3s over a dial-up link. The one exception may be Realplayer, 
> > which IS able to buffer the stream.  And this really amounts to a 
> > download and THEN play routine, anyway.
> 
> Thanks.  So it is not just my bad connection?  I notice Realplayer takes a 
> minute or so to get going, but even with a buffer, if I can only download 
> at 2.7Kbytes/sec max (and variable), which is 22Kbit/sec, it is not going 
> to keep up with 32Kbits/sec or even 24Kbit/sec for very long.

    To successfully stream anything in real time, I think you need to have 
something faster than dial-up - even if you have quite a good one, like mine 
most of the time.  I no longer bother to get anything to "stream". If I can't 
download first and then listen, I don't want to hear/watch it.


> mpg123 appears to be doing some sort of buffering since it keeps telling 
> me 'cannot rewind stream by 1208 bits' (followed by 455 and 267 bits) but 
> eventually gets a little less choppy.

    This would be in response to some kind of artifact embedded in the MP3 
file.
Newer mpg123 versions handle this stuff without blinking.

> 
> Would Mplayer buffer realaudio as well as Realplayer?  Realaudio streams 
> are inherently choppy from most stations.

   I haven't looked for a way to do it, but I doubt it will be any better 
than realplayer.
I use the latest MPlayer I compiled just a couple of months ago, running in 
SW9.1, but I still think it is more sensible to fully download any 
multi-media before invoking the appropriate player.
 
Regards,
         Ron

-- 
Ron Clarke 
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