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- LAME Ain't a Mp3 Encoder
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Don't be fooled by the name, LAME is a mp3 encoder, and a damn good one at that
- too! ;)
-
- Since v3 it started using GPSYCHO, a GPL'd psycho-acoustic model (if you don't
- know what that is, read up on the mp3 format) that produces a very nice final
- result.
-
- This is my (very successful ;) ) attempt at porting it to the Amiga, since I
- felt that the other ports out there were too poor and unstable, and not updated
- frequently enough (LAME is still a project in progress, and there are often
- updates available). This port has been extensively tested and proved very
- stable, and will be updated frequently alongside the original project.
-
-
- - CISC
-
-
-
- Hints & Tips
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Experiencing startup or random crashes when running LAME?
-
- - Try increasing stacksize (LAME needs atleast 100000 (This only applies to PPC
- version, as the 68k versions have automatic stackextend)).
-
- - Unplug your accelerator board and plug it in again, as it is known that there
- sometimes occur a bad connection for whatever reason that will make your
- programs behave badly (esp. PPC).
-
- - Remove nasty patches.
-
-
- I'm encoding directly from CD using AsimCDFS, and all my RAM disappears.
-
- - Turn off "Stream CDDA Audio" in AsimCDFS_Prefs. (Thanks to Denis Zwornarz)
-
-
- When I encode from CDDA files the resulting MP3 sounds like trash.
-
- - Most CD-ROMs return CDDA in the Intel byte order (little endian), you have to
- use the -x option to force byteswapping on the data.
-
-
- 3.05+ is slower than 3.04, why?
-
- - 3.05 uses a different quantization routine for j-stereo which is slower (but
- better), use the "-m f" option to use another routine that's a little faster.
-
-
- LAME is too slow, I want something faster!
-
- - I've optimized the exe's as good as I can, but if you want to encode even
- faster (but with poorer quality), use the "-f" option.
-
- (on a 060/50 the speed is 0.1225x vs. 0.2310x here. (v3.26)) ;)
-
- - Get a PPC card (my 604e/233 encodes at 1.0522x (no options enabled) and
- 2.0560x (-f option) with a 44.1kHz stereo AIFF). ;)
-
-
- Where's the WarpOS version of LAME?
-
- - Use Frank Wille's ppclibemu, with that the ELF works gr8 under WarpOS.
-
-
-
- Links
- ~~~~~
-
- The Amiga Alternative Audio Page (Homepage of LAME, BladeEnc and RAPlay)
- -> http://csc.smsu.edu/~strauser/audio.html
-
- LAME
- -> http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/
-
- MP3'Tech
- -> http://www.mp3tech.org/
-