IIRC, there is a fuse filesystem in portage that does exactly that. I don't have any experience with it but it warrants a look.
On 11/5/08, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:12:44 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >>> I wouldn't trust something GUI-based; it would probably call the mp3 >>> encoder with suboptimal default settings. >> >> Any decent program would let you adjust the MP3 settings. > My experience so far is that most GUI multimedia-encoding programs > offer far less options than a command-line program. Sometimes the only > choice is codec and bitrate, and the bitrate sometimes comes in a > drop-down menu of "low", "medium", "high". > > I have done many video encodings with mplayer, and in this case > adjusting settings yield drastic benefits to quality/bitrate. > >> You also need to extract the ID3 tags from the FLAC file and then write >> them to the MP3 file. > I don't care about these, but I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to > preserve them. > >
