On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:23:45AM -0800, wrote: > About the only choice these days is bladeenc. Due to > patent issues it is probably NOT available in a .deb, > at least not on the debian ftp site. However you can > get it from Tord's home page (I don't recall the url, > but you can find it on freshmeat or linuxberg). It is > now licensed under the lgpl so the source is > available. Bladeenc is a high quality encoder that > excels at 128, 256, and 320bps encoding, AND is fast too!
Actually I've found that I like LAME a lot better. It is released as a patch to the ISO encoder sample code, but even so is not hard to get working. You can find it, and more information about it at http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/ I've found it to be about par with BladeEnc for quality and speed. (Maybe a little faster). If you are on an x86, and have 'nasm' installed (there are .deb's) you can also grab a copy of the source to GOGO, an version of LAME with the key routines rewritten in assembly. This one is about four times faster than any other encoder I've used, with the same quality as LAME, especially so if your cpu does MMX or 3DNow! you can find it at: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/gogo_e.html Cheers, John -- .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------, | John P. May | What's the use of a good quotation | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | if you can't change it? | | http://www.math.ncsu.edu/~jpmay | -- Dr. Who | `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------' Key Fingerprint: 6BEB 35EB 569B A794 4958 A817 76AA 7EF4 1D4F 7766
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