Okay, this is really OT, so bear with it...
The "Space Alien" artifacts are not compression artifacts, they are
artifacts created from a heavy noise reduction. In noise reduction (with
CoolEdit 2K at least), you take a sampling of background noise. The audio
file is compared against the sample in a sort of pattern recognition
algorithm, and the background noise is stripped out. Works great for a small
hiss, but when you are stripping out a loud BUZZZZZZZZZ that is the loudest
thing on the audio track, you end up partially botching the desired audio,
too. This produces a weird convoluted "alien" or "underwater" quality to
speech. Its pretty ugly.
Alan McCollough
Web Programmer
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
Alaska Native Medical Center
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erki Esken [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 8:09 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: Re: Conference video
>
> > You get some weird "space alien" sounding artifacts, its hard
> > to explain. You'd have to be dedicated to actually listen to
> > it for the whole 7 hours.
>
> What if you compressed the audio into mp3? We all got the
> PowerPoint slides anyway. It'd be cool to listen to Steve
> and others on the headphones while coding CFML :)
>
> Erki
>
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