Re: [ILUG] mp3 encoder & decoder

From: Paul Jakma (paulj at domain itg.ie)
Date: Wed 12 Jul 2000 - 09:48:05 IST


On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Alan Sobey wrote:

> I tried using lame a few days ago and unfortunately got seg faults
> while encoding some of the songs.

i've never ever had problems with Lame.. ripped+encoded a CD last night
with it and grip.

segfaults: is your machine stable in general? mp3 encoding is quite
demanding of a machine, so if you have hardware problems lame would show
them up.

what happens if you compile a kernel. (another good stress tester, esp
with make -j 2+)

> I tried 3.85 (beta) and 3.70
> (stable) and the only way I got the whole cd to encode was by varying
> the quality (between 160 and 192) and by varying CBR/VBR. Has anyone
> had similar experiences? I presume this isn't normal.
>
> Alan
>
>



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