On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 15:48, David Stanaway wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 08:13, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 21:48, David Stanaway wrote: > > > > > > I was wondering if anyone could recommend an encoder for me? > > > > > > I use grip as a front end, and tried oggenc from vorbis-tools but I can > > > only encode at half realtime! > > > > > > I have only used mp3 encoders before on intel systems, so maybe this is > > > just a sign that ogg is a more complex transformation than mp3 but I was > > > hoping for at least real time perfomance. > > > > What clock speed etc. is that? I get more than realtime with a 667 Mhz > > G4. The compression you want to achieve probably also matters, I usually > > encode for 160 kBit/s average rate and leave the rest at defaults. > > Actually, it varies. I can get a little better than realtime when I am > not ripping (Using cdparanoia, I get about 3x read rates from the TiBook > DVD). I have the 500 MHz processor.
Oh yeah, ripping bogs down the whole system very badly here despite DMA and unmaskirq. Any suggestions for improvements are highly welcome there. > I might go and try and find the theory behind ogg encoding and have a > hack at the source. And see if I can do anything to make it altivec > friendly as it is a shame to have thhat good and expensive part of my > system going to waste. I'd say go for it! :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
