From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kai Vehmanen Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:21:10 +0000 Subject: Re: best sound format and app. for recording voice. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Benno Senoner wrote: > encoder. Anyway I try to avoid proprietary codecs. > ( Realnetworks still not able to deliver a decent realplayer for linux, > my guess is that if they do not open their protocols , Microsoft will kill > them just like they did with Nescape It's interesting to see, what RealNetworks is going to do in the near future. IMHO RN should open-source all their players and encoders, and for all platforms. And they should do it now. This would have quite an impact. As mp3 suffers from licensing problems, many people would prefer a GPL'ed RA-de/encoder. Let's hope this happens. > But as Artur pointed out, GSM isn't that bad at 12kbit/sec, [...] > or if you want extreme low bit rates use the LPC-10 code , down to 2.4kbit/sec, > = 1.1MB/hour :-) [...] > But I don't know if the quality high enough for you > http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~jaf/lpc/ Yep, there are plenty of encoders out there, but when distributing your music (or some other "popular" activity), ease of use and availability are crucial. And RealAudio is easy to use and it is widely spread. -- Kai Vehmanen -------- CS, University of Turku, Finland . http://www.wakkanet.fi/ecasound/ - linux multitrack audio processing . http://www.wakkanet.fi/sculpscape/ - ambient-idm-rock-... mp3/ra/wav