I wonder if having every word we say recorded and posted on the web for the world to download in perpeturity will have any inhibatory effect on what has been a casual conversation forum (up to now).
What if someone slips and gives a private phone number etc? It makes me nervous. Kevin On 10/9/05, Nancy Anthracite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ended up using the command line oggenc, and whatever the defaults are for > that are what it did. It started out at 65 megs and went down to 18. I have > yet to try to listen to it. > > On Sunday 09 October 2005 11:10 pm, Suchi Pande wrote: > Nancy Anthracite wrote: > > I will put this file on my server so anyone who writes to me can upload it. > > If there is an easy way to do that conversion with Linux, let me know and I > > will do it. I am not into MP3s and the like, so I know nothing about it. > > It is a 61 meg .WAV file now. > > > > On Saturday 08 October 2005 01:51 pm, Peter Bodtke wrote: > > Any chance of converting this file into MP3 format? With a low bit rate I > > suspect the file size could be reduced significantly. > > The commandline ogg encoding incantation: > > oggenc -b 128 --downmix file.wav > > will make a 128kbps file.ogg (which is probably what we have already). > Using 32 instead of 128 will probably give a listenable output too, > which would be about 1/4 the size of the 128kbps file. > > The --downmix option is for converting stereo to mono, which is > probably a good idea for non-music stuff. It has no effect if the > original wav is mono anyway. So just keep it in the incantation. > > mp3 is a patented format, licencing is needed for many uses, and it > has inferior compression compared with ogg vorbis. Those are good > reasons to prefer oggs. > > PJ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > -- > Nancy Anthracite > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
