[speex-dev] Is there a version of Speex like Fraunhofer MP3 codec?

[Ben]

John, Hi! I gave it a shot and am not sure of what exactly to do. I was 
able to choose it as the external encoder ok and then used the default 
settings, but when I gave it a try on the line-in sampling, Audiograbber 
wanted to record the audio as a wav and THEN apply speex encoding (which 
didn't work). That would probably be fine if I were using NTFS and could 
write files bigger than 4GB, right? The thing is, the computer I want to 
get this working on is an Old Pentium 166 with 32MB ram and 2GB harddrive 
(FAT32).

I don't know how to program and am not sure really how to describe what I 
am looking for. Other than if speex could be a windows selectable codec, it 
would open up a ton of things I could do with it. For radio show recording 
I would think having speex as a selectable codec in windows would help out 
alot of people (or at least get alot more people interested). Anyone up to 
the task of coding it to do this?;)  Please, please. :)

I was just thinking Speex could beat Fraunhofer MP3 for what I do. My 
current MP3 settings are
16kbps, 11Khz, mono. A five hour recording is approximately 35MB. Speex 
sounds like it would be a perfect application for this and achieve 
smaller/better quality recordings. What do you think?

Ben

<p><p><p>>In AudioGrabber, you have the option to set up an external encoder, you
>don't only have the initial options available. Obtain the win32 compile of
>speexenc from the speex download page and configure it as an external
>encoder.
>
>John
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>Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 6:03 AM
>Subject: [speex-dev] Is there a version of Speex like Fraunhofer MP3 codec?
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> > Hi! I just stumbled onto your project (Speex) and it seems perfect for
> > archiving a radio show I record every night. The thing is, I would like to
> > encode in real-time, rather than having to record the wav and then use the
> > speex encoder to encode it. The radio show runs 5 hours, so a PCM wav
>would
> > be big to store first and then process with speex (not bad though, except
> > the machine only has a 2GB harddrive).
> > Currently I am archiving my radio show using the Fraunhofer MP3 codec with
> > some software
> > called AudioGrabber. I just have Audiograbber to record from the line-in
>on
> > my soundcard. I set it to use Fraunhofer to record directly as MP3 mono,
> > 16kbps, 11kHz. I believe speex could produce better quality/smaller file
> > size. The problem I have is not being able to choose the speex codec in
> > Audiograbber instead of Fraunhofer MP3. Just wondering if there's a way to
> > make speex a selectable encoding codec. I'd like to use speex in real-time
> > to record/encode the radio show as it airs. Anything you could tell me
> > about this sort of functionality with speex would be appreciated. Thanks!
> >
> > Ben
> >
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