[lug] help with mp3 encoding

[Hugh Brown]

I've  typically used cdparanoia and bladeenc and I have had no problems.
If your hardware is suspect go look through /var/log/messages after an
encoding session.

You could also look at encoding into the Ogg Vorbis format (free open
format, much of mp3 uses a codec that isn't free or open).  The encoder is
oggenc.  You'll need libvorbis and vorbis-tools (rpm names)

Hugh


"S. Luke Jones"
> 
> I've had trouble with my mp3 encoder producing core files rather
> than mp3 files in the past. I just upgraded from 6.2 to 7.0 and
> saw that KRUD comes complete with gogo, so instead of fetching my
> own copy of (not)lame, I just used that.
> 
> I still got too many core files (3 out of 64 files I was encoding
> last night) which makes me wonder: am I the only one who gets these,
> or do any of you mp3 encoding people also see a lot of core files.
> (I do most of my encoding overnight, but I did see in the xterm
> buffer that one was due to a segmentation fault.)
> 
> Can anyone give me ideas to pursue? Is this a problem with lame
> and gogo, or my machine? If the latter, it must be HW since I just
> changed all the SW.
> 
> (Interestingly, I only did 65 out of about 85 files, because early
> on, gogo created an mp3 file 2147483647 bytes long, which you will
> of course recognize as the decimal representation of the magic
> number 0x7FFFffff.  This is particularly interesting since the input
> file was a mere 56 MB. I suppose it would have kept going if Linux
> hadn't got in the way and truncated it. Maybe I should switch to
> the 2.4 kernel, or reiserfs, or whatever it is that lets me have
> bigger files.)
> 
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> Luke Jones = luke/vortex/frii/fullstop/com
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