It won't take output from arecord, arecord records by default in 8 bit sampling rate, which lame won't work with. At 02:18 PM 8/20/00 +1000, you wrote: >Hi Chuck: > >As the bladeenc site says, they're not about low bit-rate encoding. In my >personal opinion, lame shits all over it. Bladeenc reckon they're better >at rates over 128K, but I'm yet to hear it. Lame is certainly better at >128K and below. > >I don't have the August 6 beta, didn't know there was one actually. Lame >does do an OK job at encoding vorbis streams, but only to a point. The >vorbis code up until this week from vorbis.org only really supported >encoding at higher bitrates like 160. Lame will do lower, but I think it >uses it's MP3 engine and alters the output to encode vorbis instead. Don't >get me wrong, it still sounds better than MP3 even produced by the same >encoder, but I don't think it sounds as good as vorbis will sound at the >same rates. > >I'd look out for another version of lame to hit the streets soon as Tuesday >saw the release of vorbis 1.0beta2. As you may recall from the interview, >this does 128K encoding and might even do 96, haven't looked. The program >listed on vorbis.com for encoding has changed from an ogg-ised version of >lame 3.84alpha to a program called oggenc. I haven't tried it yet but I do >intend to. > >I might also say while I'm here that if you want a straight player, then >I'd probably recommend freeamp. But, and it's a big but, you need the >latest available code. There is a version labeled freeamp 2.1beta5vorbis, >but the vorbis support doesn't work with any other than the X gdk >interface. freeamp 2.1beta6 will fix this, but last I checked, it hadn't >been released yet. Until it is, you will have to checkout the CVS >code. This does work, believe me. I finally after 4 weeks of chasing it >and E-mails to freeamp developers, have a freeamp that will play ogg vorbis >in console mode. > >If you want some content to listen to, check out www.vorbis.com. There is >a They Might Be Giants song at 96K that sounds quite impressive, and it's >only 1.4 meg. > >Geoff. > > >-- >Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> >ICQ number 43634701 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
