[PLUG] mpg123 for RH 8

Richard Steffens rsteff at attbi.com
Tue Nov 19 23:32:41 UTC 2002


"Percival, Ray" wrote:

> Ah yes converting MP3 to ogg. Don't do it both a lossy formats and
> they are lossy in different ways. This means that a file converted
> from MP3 to ogg will sound like crap. OTOH rip all your new stuff in
> ogg. It produces smaller files that , to me, sound just as good or
> better. I'm far from a golden ear though.

Nicholas Knight wrote:

> If you do start moving to ogg, don't convert from mp3. There are utilities to
> do it, but both are lossy formats, and the quality will end up, at best, the
> same as the original mp3, but likely worse than if you'd left them as mp3's.
<snip>
> The main drawback to ogg, aside from lack of widespread adoption, is that
> current decoders are slower than those for mp3. This might be an issue
> considering you're only on a P200. Encoding is slower, too, but that's a
> one-time penalty.

As much as I like the idea of supporting open source, I think I'll stick
with mp3's for now.

"Percival, Ray" wrote:

> I can't speak to rpms but if this was a deb the answer would be that you
> most likely would be able to. But I don't think that will solve your
> problem. What might given the info you have thrown out is applying the
> low latency patch and building yourself a shiny new kernel. 

Nicholas Knight wrote:

> As I'm not using RH, I haven't really looked into it, but apparently
> something about RH8's kernel is causing CPU usage issues with certain
> applications (mostly games, it seems). Might be related, dunno.

I'm not likely to upgrade this machine anytime soon, and I know it used
to sound good, so I'll pursue the problem from that end. Always
something new to learn about.

Thanks for the ideas.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens
http://rsteff.home.attbi.com/




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