craig duncan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I just happened to rerip the same CD i'd already ripped on my desktop
> (1GHz Duron, Soyo MB) on my laptop (Pentium II 266MHz).  I'm running the
> same unstable version of Debian on each with lame compiled with gcc
> 2.95.4 on each, also.  I figured the encoded versions on each machine
> should be the same size, but they're not.

Check the length and the md5sum of the ripped .wav file before you
encode it.  Ripping is not a deterministic process -- different CD-ROM
drives and ripper programs will give you dramatically different results.
For Linux, I recommend cdparanoia (or a front-end program that uses
cdparanoia, e.g. grip).

> probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a
> VIA686a.
> Probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration.

That's a bad sign. :-/

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