Re: mp3 encoders on linux/alpha...

[Andrew Hobgood <chaos strange net>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Nils Faerber wrote:

>   ftp://wopr.campus.luth.se:/pub/mpeg_layer_3/

I'll check it out...

> If you want more decent encoder with more features than the ISO based ones

Yeah... I managed to get a hold of the 8hz source before Fraunhofer came 
down and killed it.

> This is the home of lame which is IMHO currently the best "free" encoder
> around. It can handle 128kbps JS mp3 quite well but still by far not as good
> as FHG's encoder (you might want to try their Alpha OSF demo version for
> comparison).

Hmm... I tried a recent LAME, but it wouldn't link against the CPML, so 
I just linked it against regular libm... can't get realtime performance out 
of it, though.

/Andrew