(newbie question :)
Do you mean that lame is able to re-encode
from an mp3 to another mp3 file ?
I'm looking for something to downsample mp3 files...on-the-fly.
Is lame able to do that ?
Benjamin Reed wrote:
>
> I've written a perl program called DJ In A Box that does on-the-fly
> re-encoding of MP3 data and sends it to a shoutcast server.
>
> It uses LAME (with --decode) to decode the data and then sends that data to
> another process for each bitrate that uses LAME to re-encode it (a variation
> on 'lame - -').
>
> It basically does this:
>
> 1. fork 24k process
> 2. fork 56k process
> 3. 24k process open2's 'lame - -'
> 4. 56k process open2's 'lame - -'
> 5. main process figures out song to play
> 6. main process forks lame --decode on song
> 7. repeat 5 & 6 ad nauseum
>
> The problem is, the encode processes die after about 4 hours, with no
> apparent error messages. Because of the long time between failures, I have
> yet to be able to do some real accurate timing out of this, but I thought I
> would ask in the meantime:
>
> Are there any hard-coded limits that would cause buffers or counters to
> roll-over after a long period of continuous encoding?
>
> If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. I don't
> know C well enough to really be able to figure out what's going on in the
> code (it's on the list of things to do :).
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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