Thank you very much for your comments Michael. Francisco
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Michael Ludwig" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 1:08 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Please, I need help/suggestions/ideas with audio streaming forMIDI preview > Hi Francisco, > > this doesn't seem to have much (or anything) to do with Perl, but read > my comments below. > > Francisco Zarabozo schrieb am 22.09.2010 um 18:24 (-0500): > >> So, I need to create a mp3 with the recorded midi file on it. Right >> now, I'm using a command line utility that can convert midi files to >> wav and another command line utility that converts the wav file to >> mp3. Then I can place that mp3 file in the HTML as a demo. >> >> Although this may seem a good solution, it's not for this website: the >> server has only about 300 GB of space for this and creating an audio >> preview of about 700,000 midi files would represent about 3 TB in mp3 >> storage. > > I'd look into: > > * find a more efficient preview format (WAV is not compacted IIRC) > * tuning the conversion to create smaller files, lowering quality > * creating files on demand and then store (many files will probably > never see a preview request) > * buy more storage > >> So, I'm trying to get some ideas for this. Right now, I can only think >> of finding some way to stream the midi file as audio, though I really >> don't know how to do that. I want to keep this in Perl as much as >> possible, but if it has to be done other way, I'll try it too. > > I might be wrong, but I think you need something called a "streaming > server" in order to do streaming. > > Best, > -- > Michael Ludwig > _______________________________________________ > ActivePerl mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
