Thanks. I thought I had in knocked with lame, but the recorder I'm using, a java applet called nonogong from Hong Kong university, uses an imaADPCM, 4-bit format for its .wav files that lame chokes on. ffmpeg has no problem! But I cannot get ffmpeg to run on my ViaVerio FreeBSD server.
The nanogong applet can also use speex, but I don't know how to play back speex. All this has to work in microsoft browsers because that's what everyone who has a computer has her in Thailand. As elsewhere I suppose, still. HTML 5 is coming... but not yet. And to microsoft kicking and screaming. If anyone knows of a way to convert 4bit imaADPCM .wav files to mp3 on a FreeBSD machine I'd be very happy to hear of it! Thanks for your help. On 07/29/2010 04:08 PM, Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:43:27PM +0700, John Francis Lee wrote: >> Hello, > <snip> >> I'm trying to make an internet language lab for kids here in Chiangrai. >> The tool I've found to record their voices over the wire (nanogong) >> creates .wav files, but flash and the rest of the world want .mp3 files >> to play back... and they're smaller. I need a way to convert .wav to >> .mp3 files, and ffmpeg is what I use on my linux at home... > > Try the audio/lame port. It's a high-quality mp3 encoder. In some countries > you might need one or several patent licenses to use MP3 encoders. See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_patent_issues > Generally most people ignore these patents, I think. > > You might also want to look at the audio/vorbis-tools port. Generally Ogg > Vorbis files are smaller than mp3. Also those tools and its format are not > encumbered by patents. > > For the highest quality, use lossless encoding as used by audio/flac. > > AFAIK, pretty much all sound/multimedia playback programs available on FreeBSD > and Linux support all these formats. > > Roland -- "This message may have been intercepted and read by U.S. government agencies including the FBI, CIA, and NSA and/or the present government of Thailand without notice or warrant or knowledge of sender or recipient." John Francis Lee 246/3 Thanon Kaew Wai Mueang Chiangrai 57000 Thailand _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"