Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-12 Thread Damian G
I have a few problem with MPlayer. One I have mdk 82 avifiles as below. libavifile0.7-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk libavifile0.7-devel-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk avifile-player-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk Still libavcodec is not taken while compiling. MPlayer doesn't use avifile at all. to enable

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-12 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Wednesday 11 Sep 2002 8:35 am, Damian G wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:15:38 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DivX files can be viewed in PC. But is there any commercial players that can be connected to TV uhm.. you mean you need a program that plays a movie thru the TV

RE: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-12 Thread Mark Stewart
tell me about it. i have a portable cdplayer that will read mp3's burned to disc and play them. it is pretty nice, espec. for the price, but i would give anything for it to support OGG. _very_ nice. It's something about floating-point integer. OGG requires a player with it, which

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-11 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 16.57 10/09/2002, you wrote: On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Ron Bouwhuis wrote: I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players to support the format and MP3 would be dead. Ron. I

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-11 Thread John Richard Smith
Damian G wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:15:38 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DivX files can be viewed in PC. But is there any commercial players that can be connected to TV uhm.. you mean you need a program that plays a movie thru the TV output? i don't have such video

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-11 Thread John Richard Smith
dfox wrote: This app seems to need a lot of optimization, as the RPM packages did work slower. and to answer your question: nope. i never encoded using PRMs temd to be conservative sometimes. And mencoder does a ton of computations. I don't know how long it would take on a reasonably-

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-11 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 00:57, Ralph Slooten wrote: I use giFT for downloading (it's like Kazaa, but console and of course for Linux) where there are quite a few ogg's to be found. Ralph, Do you have a URL for giFT? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-11 Thread John Richard Smith
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: I have downloaded lame-encoder-3.92-3tex.i586.rpm from above, and can confirm that it does work with Mplayer (mine is the CVS version) . Great... you did recompile MPlayer I'm guessing with the lame RPM, or just

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - MPlayer

2002-09-11 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: No I just took the old lame lame-20020408cvs-1mdk. off and put the lame-encoder-3.92-3tex.i586.rpm on ,using the usual commands, went to mplyayer , encoded a chapter , then played it back in the usual way. Ok, this answers my question... at

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-11 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 9:19 pm, Damian G wrote: i have used precompiled RPM's for MPlayer once or twice and i have found out that the developers were right about them. This app seems to need a lot of optimization, as the RPM packages did work slower. and to answer your question: nope. i

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 08:18:48 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 September 2002 10:59 pm, Ron Bouwhuis did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-11 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have a few problem with MPlayer. One I have mdk 82 avifiles as below. libavifile0.7-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk libavifile0.7-devel-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk avifile-player-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk Still libavcodec is not taken while compiling. Umm, ooohhh,

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-10 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 September 2002 10:59 pm, Ron Bouwhuis did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-10 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Damian G wrote: On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:12:40 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote: Has anyone had any luck with compiling and using mencoder (MPlayer) with this lame-encoder RPM? It's not a question of whether you think it will or It appears people have

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-10 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Ron Bouwhuis wrote: I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players to support the format and MP3 would be dead. Ron. I agree 152% with you here. I have

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-10 Thread Damian G
Hi there Damian, You used the RPM's from that site, and compiled MPlayer yourself, or did you use a pre-compiled MPlayer? It's just that I'm too lazy to test it all out due to lack of time. As I said, I am writing a guide how to rip a DVD (16:9) to DivX using mencoder / libavcodec /

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-10 Thread L.V.Gandhi
There are very cheap mp3 cd players available in the market. Any idea about ogg players? On Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 11:29 am, Ron Bouwhuis wrote: I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-10 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, L.V.Gandhi wrote: DivX files can be viewed in PC. But is there any commercial players that can be connected to TV Well, if you have an S video out from your vid card, you can hook that up to most TVs, I believe... On Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 10:20 am, Damian G wrote:

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-10 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:15:38 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DivX files can be viewed in PC. But is there any commercial players that can be connected to TV uhm.. you mean you need a program that plays a movie thru the TV output? i don't have such video card, so i might be

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-10 Thread dfox
This app seems to need a lot of optimization, as the RPM packages did work slower. and to answer your question: nope. i never encoded using PRMs temd to be conservative sometimes. And mencoder does a ton of computations. I don't know how long it would take on a reasonably- powered box with

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-10 Thread L.V.Gandhi
DivX files can be viewed in PC. But is there any commercial players that can be connected to TV On Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 10:20 am, Damian G wrote: On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:12:40 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote: Has anyone had any luck with compiling and using mencoder (MPlayer)

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-10 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, dfox wrote: This app seems to need a lot of optimization, as the RPM packages did work slower. and to answer your question: nope. i never encoded using PRMs temd to be conservative sometimes. And mencoder does a ton of computations. I don't know how long it would

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I don't think any have been released yet, but many companies have expressed interest in releasing consumer OGG players. Unlike with MP3, they don't have to pay royalties to anyone, and OGG is a much better format anyway (in compression and sound quality). On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:12:47 +0530,

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-09 Thread Sevatio
Marco Verheul wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a tool to convert my own audio cd's into mp3 files. All suggestions/recommendations are welcome... Regards, Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 09 Sep 2002 2:18 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a tool to convert my own audio cd's into mp3 files. All suggestions/recommendations are welcome... Regards, Marco Grip It is on your CDs Out of the box it will rip into ogg format which is better quality with

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-09 Thread Raffaele Belardi
grip is good for ripping (it uses cdparanoia) and compressing (I use lame). Not as good as EAC for windows IMHO, unfortunately. The feature I miss in grip is that it does not signal exactly where it eventually encounters an error during the rip process, so you can judge if it is fine or you

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-09 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: Mandrake do not supply the library needed for mp3 encoding because it is subject to a patent, but if you download and install the lame-encoder RPM from here ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Mandrake-8.2/RPMS Has anyone had

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-09 Thread dfox
Has anyone had any luck with compiling and using mencoder (MPlayer) with this lame-encoder RPM? It's not a question of whether you think it will or It appears people have :). I have never tried mencoder - I don't have any dvd hardware on the computer - otherwise I would give it a try :).

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-09 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:12:40 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote: Has anyone had any luck with compiling and using mencoder (MPlayer) with this lame-encoder RPM? It's not a question of whether you think it will or It appears people have :). I have never tried mencoder - I don't

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-09 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players to support the format and MP3 would be dead. Ron. --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grip is good for ripping (it uses

Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper--Install error

2002-04-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:42:13 +0200 Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:36:55 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I get this error when trying to install: Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code. snip [frans@amd frans]$

Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper (cdparanoia)

2002-04-05 Thread Jesper Nyholm Jensen
Hi, I haven't installed cdparanoia yet, but just reading about it, it doen't seem like it encodes the wav-files in the mp3-format, but just outputs the wav-files? Is this wrong? If not cdparanoia does not live up to my criteria (input cd, output mp3s), and I would like a reference to an

Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper (cdparanoia)

2002-04-05 Thread Jesper Nyholm Jensen
Hi, I got the answer elsewhere: use cdparanoia to rip the cd, use Lame to encode. Thanx anyway. -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, I haven't installed cdparanoia yet, but just reading about it, it doen't seem like it encodes the wav-files in the

Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper

2002-04-05 Thread Roger Sherman
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, What's a good MP3-ripper? One that just takes a cd as input and outputs the MP3s. -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen My personal favorite is a command line ripper that will rip the CD, query CDDB, do all the name change, etc, and convert it to

Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper (cdparanoia)

2002-04-05 Thread Tom
On Friday 05 April 2002 05:24 am, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, I got the answer elsewhere: use cdparanoia to rip the cd, use Lame to encode. Thanx anyway. http://plf.zarb.org/rpm/8.2/i586/notlame-3.91-3plf.i586.rpm it's called 'notlame' for quasi legal reasons. There's notlame for

Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper--Install error

2002-04-05 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 09:19:11 -0500 (EST) Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My personal favorite is a command line ripper that will rip the CD, query CDDB, do all the name change, etc, and convert it to either .mp3 or .ogg. It's called Rip, and you can get it from rip.sourceforge.net. I

[newbie] MP3-ripper

2002-04-04 Thread Jesper Nyholm Jensen
Hi, What's a good MP3-ripper? One that just takes a cd as input and outputs the MP3s. -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper

2002-04-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
It's included in Mandrake. If you want a GUI frontend for it, Grip is a good choice. On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:22:26 +0200 (MEST), Jesper Nyholm Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Where to get? -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Bryan Tyson wrote: On Thursday 04 April 2002 11:23,