[MPlayer-users] Re: Audio file size

[Piotr Stachura]

Dnia środa, 26 kwietnia 2006 11:28, Oygle napisał:
> I assumed the size problem was from mplayer, that's why I posted here.
> It is mplayer that created the 102.3 Mb WAV file from a 3.6 Mb WMA
> file.

I've got 35min long talk in 5.1MB file. When I decompress it to wav I've got 
about 350MB wav file. You really should read about bitrate. Also lame man 
pages lecture will be good.

> I had three or four people listen to both the WMA and the resultant
> MP3 file, and they all reported no quality loss, one of those people
> works with sound desks, etc.

On my small speakers I also can't tell that sound quality isn't well :P

> Not interested in WMA, any burning to a CD gives the audio file title
> as 'track 1', really helpful, whereas MP3 shows the filename as the
> song title (...)

No comment

> I'll look into oggenc, but have only heard of lame, it's well known
> and already on the Linux box.

Yes, ogg vorbis file is popular, and also better hardware can play it (iRiver, 
iAudio), you should look also on AAC (also known as mp4) but this format is 
playable only? by iPod.
BTW. WMA is wierd format (M$ :|) but is playable by allmost every cheap 
chinese hardware :P
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Piotr Stachura