From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from axis.scu.edu.au(wwwproxy.scu.edu.au[203.2.32.1]) (2014 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:02:51 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from alsvid.scu.edu.au (alsvid.scu.edu.au [203.2.33.1]) by axis.scu.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA22571 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:02:47 +1000 (EST) Received: from data.home (mail@annex24.scu.edu.au [203.2.32.124]) by alsvid.scu.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA15147 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:02:46 +1000 (EST) Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13R5Gv-00060Y-00; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:02:45 +1000 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:02:45 +1000 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Slashdot interview re: vorbis In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000821192727.007b05c0@mail.ufw2.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: 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