In article <m2n-43F22A6F-20F9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: > km from the place I'm now, and I realize that it is a 100 MB file I > should transfer by sftp every day. So I'd like to compress the file and > convert it to MP3 directly on the linux box, in order to compress it Use vdrsync to extract the audio track and lame to transcode it: vdrsync.pl -audio-only /path/to/recording/ lame --mp2input vdrsync0.mpa recording.mp3 Choose suitable lame options for encoding quality (e.g. --preset cd selects a bitrate of 192kbps which is just the same as the usual audio tracks on DVB-S; consequently this results in an MP3 file of almost exactly the same size as the MPA input). Olaf
