From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.154]) (2339 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:16:09 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id XAA02809; Mon Aug 21 23:14:56 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA01142 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:15:27 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000821232155.007cadd0@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:21:55 -0500 Subject: Re: Slashdot interview re: vorbis In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.6.32.20000821192727.007b05c0@mail.ufw2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: Just to see if it's better. It seems I can't reverse the process take an mp3 and make a wave out of it. I've tried mpg123 myfile.mp3 | arecord -M myfile.wav, and it plays through the speaker, not to the program. >Hi: > >OK, capital M is 48khz, cd quality is 44.1khz. Depending on your >soundcard, you may not be able to use 48khz. Most probably, any 48khz >files you can infact use will probably be downsampled to 44.1khz upon >playback, unless you've got a funky soundcard. > >Lame by default encodes at 128kbps stereo. If you use the -a switch to >downmix to mono, the default is 64kbps. > >Finally, you don't need to do a distupgrade necessarily to use a package >from unstable. In theory, it should let you know if other packages need to >be upgraded in order for it to work. Having said that, however, compiling >from source is pretty straight-forward, and you might be able to grab >binaries for stuff anyway. What do you want to do with vorbis >anyway? There are binaries for oggenc (an encoder) and freeamp 2.1beta6 is >apparently out now (according to one of the developers who wrote to me >personally to tell me) and that should do for playing them. > >Geoff. > > >-- >Geoff Shang >ICQ number 43634701 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >