[MP3 ENCODER] Re: highq mode

2000-02-03 Thread T.B.
Hello Joerg, On 03-Feb-00, you wrote: > oh one stupid suggestion for the stand alone executable : it could be a good > idea to allow "| more" or "/page" or "> file.asc" to see the command help, > now it "goes away" without seein the beginning of it Simply use a better Computer or at least insta

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME in the PRESS

2000-02-03 Thread Ross Levis
Felix von Leitner wrote: > I wonder where the myth that joint stereo would somehow adversely affect > quality comes from. Was it the web pages from the BladeEnc guy? I > don't know. Anyway, joint stereo does not make the signal and worse, it > just allows for a better bandwidth use because on

Re: Re[3]: [MP3 ENCODER] highq mode

2000-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 23:39:10 -, Mathew Hendry wrote: >BTW, the Linux distribution I have (Mandrake 6.x) uses pgcc (a >Pentium-specific branch of gcc) as its default compiler. Gives a noticable >speed improvement for LAME, and I haven't noticed any glitches with it. >Since pgcc was apparently u

Re: Re[3]: [MP3 ENCODER] highq mode

2000-02-03 Thread Monty
> > oh one stupid suggestion for the stand alone executable : it could be a good idea >to allow > > "| more" or "/page" or "> file.asc" to see the command help, now it "goes away" >without seein > > the beginning of it Learn your shell; the output is going to stderr, not stdout. You're only

Re: Re[3]: [MP3 ENCODER] highq mode

2000-02-03 Thread Mathew Hendry
> From: "Greg Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Can windows users redirect stderr like us poor saps stuck using Free > Software? 9x users can't. NT users can; and the NT console has scrollback anyway. I'm currently running a triple boot system (Linux, Win98, Win2k). I might be tempted to switch t

Re: Re[3]: [MP3 ENCODER] highq mode

2000-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:48:15 -0500 (EST), Greg Maxwell wrote: >On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Joerg Hevers wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> > oh one stupid suggestion for the stand alone executable : it could be a good idea >to allow >> > "| more" or "/page" or "> file.asc" to see the command help, now it "goes aw

Re: Re[3]: [MP3 ENCODER] highq mode

2000-02-03 Thread Greg Maxwell
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Joerg Hevers wrote: > Hello, > > > oh one stupid suggestion for the stand alone executable : it could be a good idea >to allow > > "| more" or "/page" or "> file.asc" to see the command help, now it "goes away" >without seein > > the beginning of it > Yes, that would be ver

Re[3]: [MP3 ENCODER] highq mode

2000-02-03 Thread Joerg Hevers
Hello, > oh one stupid suggestion for the stand alone executable : it could be a good idea to >allow > "| more" or "/page" or "> file.asc" to see the command help, now it "goes away" >without seein > the beginning of it Yes, that would be very useful, especially for Windows where you cannon scr

RE: [MP3 ENCODER] Question about LAME_Enc.DLL

2000-02-03 Thread Ilana Rudnik
Hi all! There's a problem in the beInitStream function. The parameter info.lay wasn't getting stuffed. old code: stereo = fr_ps.stereo; error_protection = info.error_protection; if (info.lay != 3) { printf("Only Layer 3 supported\n"); // th

Re: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] highq mode

2000-02-03 Thread Cavallo de Cavallis
> > Exactly! That's the first really sensible thing I've heard on this subject. > If quality improves dramaticly, it should not be activated with a -quality 10 > or actually, a -quality 0, but the better quality should be provided using > the same 'use best quality' setting from previous versions

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME CRASHES / LAME in the PRESS

2000-02-03 Thread Cavallo de Cavallis
> > so blade sucks in such evident way ? > > Yes. > I is like lame without the patches ;) > Please read the lame changelog, just the patches in the last year > affecting quality. Yes but i thought XING was the worst one Cavallo de Cavallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =-=--=--=--=--=-

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME in the PRESS

2000-02-03 Thread Cavallo de Cavallis
> Is 160 really high enough to warrant not using joint stereo anymore? I always > encode with LAME 160 joint stereo, but maybe I should convert :) Good question, i'd like to know it anyway i have no idea bout which setting use EAC with DLL, i should ask to the programmer :/ > > I agree in that e

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Question about LAME_Enc.DLL

2000-02-03 Thread Jose Mejuto
At 15:07 03/02/00 +0100, you wrote: Hi,   I'm trying to use Lame_Enc.DLL. The import of the functions seems to be good. I can get the version Number. But when I want to call beInitStream it fails with an error 2. With BladeEnc.DLL all works well. Did anything change in the structures format, or a

Re: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME CRASHES / LAME in the PRESS

2000-02-03 Thread Felix von Leitner
> it prints a warning that one of its packets was missing. In addition to > the packet transmitted is a packet number. When they are out of sequence > or missing, the utility whines about it. I am currently writing a receiver than substitutes the packet with the closest sequence number instead.

Re: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME CRASHES / LAME in the PRESS

2000-02-03 Thread Jeremy Hall
it prints a warning that one of its packets was missing. In addition to the packet transmitted is a packet number. When they are out of sequence or missing, the utility whines about it. _J In the new year, Felix von Leitner wrote: > > Your rtp thing probably encodes one frame per packet. My li

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME in the PRESS

2000-02-03 Thread Ivo van Heel
> > I agree in that encoding in CBR opposed to VBR gives me a feeling of being > > more safe :) > I wonder where the myth that joint stereo would somehow adversely affect > quality comes from. Was it the web pages from the BladeEnc guy? Actually, it was this mailinglist. I think Mark Taylor (cor

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME in the PRESS

2000-02-03 Thread Mark Stephens
It is true that joint stereo can give better results, but it is also true that it is just another algorithum that can go wrong. Look at the LAME change log for example, there have been some minor bugs in JS. I think JS got a bad name from Xing and their whacked out implementation. Xing JS can in

[MP3 ENCODER] Portability patches + assertion failure

2000-02-03 Thread Mathew Hendry
Hi all, Got a few small patches here to fix warnings and to persuade LAME to compile under MSVC and Cygwin; they mainly handle cases where BRHIST and HAVEGTK are not defined. The files affected are Makefile.MSVC brhist.c get_audio.c lame.c loopold.c machine.h parse.c psymodel.c quantize.c Also,

[MP3 ENCODER] Question about LAME_Enc.DLL

2000-02-03 Thread Gabriel Gélin
Hi,   I'm trying to use Lame_Enc.DLL. The import of the functions seems to be good. I can get the version Number. But when I want to call beInitStream it fails with an error 2. With BladeEnc.DLL all works well. Did anything change in the structures format, or anything else ?   Thanks for an

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME in the PRESS

2000-02-03 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Ivo van Heel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Personally, I use LAME 160 stereo for all my encodes, fast and sounds great > > to me. > Is 160 really high enough to warrant not using joint stereo anymore? I always > encode with LAME 160 joint stereo, but maybe I should convert :) > I agree in t

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME CRASHES / LAME in the PRESS

2000-02-03 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Rolf Hanich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Maybe you should have a look on the new Fraunhofer plugin, as used in Nero. Sorry, but I cannot test all incarnations of Fraunhofer plugins in the world. The MusicMatch software is quite recent so I expected the plugin to be to current version. > It

Re: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME CRASHES / LAME in the PRESS

2000-02-03 Thread Felix von Leitner
> Your rtp thing probably encodes one frame per packet. My little utility > grabs 1k of data and transmits it. How does your utility expect the receiver to recover from packet loss? Felix PS: I'm out of town until Feb 10 and won't have email in the mean time. -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME in the PRESS

2000-02-03 Thread Greg Maxwell
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Ivo van Heel wrote: > > Personally, I use LAME 160 stereo for all my encodes, fast and sounds great > > to me. > > Is 160 really high enough to warrant not using joint stereo anymore? I always > encode with LAME 160 joint stereo, but maybe I should convert :) > > I agree in

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME CRASHES / LAME in the PRESS

2000-02-03 Thread Cavallo de Cavallis
> > so blade sucks in such evident way ? > > Yes. > I is like lame without the patches ;) > Please read the lame changelog, just the patches in the last year > affecting quality. Yes but i thought XING was the worst one Cavallo de Cavallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =-=--=--=--=--=-

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME in the PRESS

2000-02-03 Thread Ivo van Heel
> Personally, I use LAME 160 stereo for all my encodes, fast and sounds great > to me. Is 160 really high enough to warrant not using joint stereo anymore? I always encode with LAME 160 joint stereo, but maybe I should convert :) I agree in that encoding in CBR opposed to VBR gives me a feeling