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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] broken windows needs replacing
  • Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:19:48 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Ron Clarke wrote:

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.

Is this aspi.sys? (scsi driver that goes into config.sys - this is what DOS cdrecord seems to use). What is your package?


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.

I could tolerate the occasional missing notes with Realaudio, which is better quality than we get on the radio here. Only classical stations are 50-75 miles away.


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.

This is the latest mpg123 version available. Version r. I will some day attempt to compile the later mpg321.


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.

I hope David will find the time and space to share his 5MB statically compiled MPlayer. James seems to have space to host lots of programs.

Regards,
Ron

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