Slashdot interview re: vorbis

Brent Harding bharding at mail.ufw2.com
Mon Aug 21 20:27:27 EDT 2000


I don't know if I really should upgrade to unstable. Does the capital m for
dat quality give better than lower m for CD quality? I tried it this
morning, and it worked. What default bandwidth does lame make the files?
At 09:04 AM 8/22/00 +1000, you wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Brent Harding wrote:
>
>> It won't take output from arecord, arecord records by default in 8 bit
>> sampling rate, which lame won't work with.
>
>Oh yeah.  Silly me.  Try:
>
>arecord -m |lame - file.mp3
>
>For 44.1khz 16 bit stereo.  If you want something less, use the s and b
>switches and ummm... the other one for specifying channel numbers to get
>what you want.  You may also have to use command options in the lame
>command to get it working properly, but it's definitely doable.
>
>Oh by the way, apparently there is a vorbis-tools (not necessarily spelled
>correctly) debian package available, but I'd guess that it's in unstable.
>
>Geoff.
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