On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Kirk Wood wrote: > As far as changing the bit rate it is > most likely a forget it situation. Not on current computers. > > Kirk and Brent - If you can run trplayer on the remote system you can probably also run 'vsound' - which means you can convert that 128kb stream to a wave file. Then you can use lame to encode it into mp3 at 24 or even 16 kb, mono if you really want to squeeze it, and then resend it to yourself. Of course that is not 'real time' but it gets you the data at whatever rate you wish. Chuck. My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh It does not matter if you fall down as long as you pick up something from the floor while you get up.