Haggai Eran wrote:
I managed once to record a file directly to mp3:
I told mplayer to dump the file as wave instead of an asf, but instead
of writing to a file, I set up a fifo node.
then I ran lame to that fifo to compress it live to an mp3.
Well, on-the-fly conversion to mp3 is not the issue for me since
I want to edit the file before I turn it into mp3, so I'd prefer
to save it with as little changes as possible before I decompress
it for editing.
I got two tips in private e-mail:
1. rename the .ASF file to have .wma extension
2. "mplayer -ao pcm file.wma" decompressed it to .wav format.
These seem to work also with the old files which ffmpeg fails on.
Eveyrone seems to use lame for the mp3 generation, btw.
(I mean, even programs which "integrate mp3 generation" admit
to actually use lame for the dirty work).
I'd still appreciate to hear whether my impression that the .WMA
format is the one used "on the wire" or do mplayer somehow converts
it to something else when I use it the way I described.
Thanks,
--Amos
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