Slashdot interview re: vorbis

[Brent Harding]

It won't take output from arecord, arecord records by default in 8 bit
sampling rate, which lame won't work with.
At 02:18 PM 8/20/00 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi Chuck:
>
>As the bladeenc site says, they're not about low bit-rate encoding.  In my
>personal opinion, lame shits all over it.  Bladeenc reckon they're better
>at rates over 128K, but I'm yet to hear it.  Lame is certainly better at
>128K and below.
>
>I don't have the August 6 beta, didn't know there was one actually.  Lame
>does do an OK job at encoding vorbis streams, but only to a point.  The
>vorbis code up until this week from vorbis.org only really supported
>encoding at higher bitrates like 160.  Lame will do lower, but I think it
>uses it's MP3 engine and alters the output to encode vorbis instead.  Don't
>get me wrong, it still sounds better than MP3 even produced by the same
>encoder, but I don't think it sounds as good as vorbis will sound at the
>same rates.
>
>I'd look out for another version of lame to hit the streets soon as Tuesday
>saw the release of vorbis 1.0beta2.  As you may recall from the interview,
>this does 128K encoding and might even do 96, haven't looked.  The program
>listed on vorbis.com for encoding has changed from an ogg-ised version of
>lame 3.84alpha to a program called oggenc.  I haven't tried it yet but I do
>intend to.
>
>I might also say while I'm here that if you want a straight player, then
>I'd probably recommend freeamp.  But, and it's a big but, you need the
>latest available code.  There is a version labeled freeamp 2.1beta5vorbis,
>but the vorbis support doesn't work with any other than the X gdk
>interface.  freeamp 2.1beta6 will fix this, but last I checked, it hadn't
>been released yet.  Until it is, you will have to checkout the CVS
>code.  This does work, believe me.  I finally after 4 weeks of chasing it
>and E-mails to freeamp developers, have a freeamp that will play ogg vorbis
>in console mode.
>
>If you want some content to listen to, check out www.vorbis.com.  There is
>a They Might Be Giants song at 96K that sounds quite impressive, and it's
>only 1.4 meg.
>
>Geoff.
>
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