Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-07 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Adams wrote: > Grip as supplied (9.0 + 9.1) does ogg vorbis encoding without any addons. > Xmms will play the .oggs happily. They are more environmentally friendly > (read better license) than mp3. Ogg's are better but I can't put 100 or so on

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-07 Thread Michael Adams
Grip as supplied (9.0 + 9.1) does ogg vorbis encoding without any addons. Xmms will play the .oggs happily. They are more environmentally friendly (read better license) than mp3. The oggs record at 44khz. On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 23:25:06 +0100 bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry no, i use lam

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread Richard Bown
OK replying to myself I've loaded gogo, and by eck its fast, but a bit greedy on cpu 90 %, but at nearly 3x rip speed ...wow ! richard On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 19:44, Richard Bown wrote: > thanks Kevin , I obviously missed it > On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 18:12, KevinO wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread Rolf Pedersen
KevinO wrote: Rolf Pedersen wrote: In contrib/, there is abcde. By default, with a CD in /dev/cdrom, when you type abcde, there are a couple of interactive questions then abcde will rip the CD, encoding to ogg in a subdirectory of the artist's name with track names. Encoding runs parallel with r

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread Richard Bown
thanks Kevin , I obviously missed it On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 18:12, KevinO wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Richard Bown wrote: > > It would be nice to encode to mp3 with grip, but I've look everywhere I > > know and hav'nt found the encoder. > > > As mentioned in recen

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wrote: > It would be nice to encode to mp3 with grip, but I've look everywhere I > know and hav'nt found the encoder. > As mentioned in recent messages, but repeated here ;-) http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_1712.html has the tar.gz fil

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread Richard Bown
Hi, well its looks like I'm in the right area time wise :) Now I'm getting very tempted to upgrade the cpu, Ive only recently got this motherboard so I should be OK . It would be nice to encode to mp3 with grip, but I've look everywhere I know and hav'nt found the encoder. from the replies on thi

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread KevinO
Rolf Pedersen wrote: > In contrib/, there is abcde. By default, with a CD in /dev/cdrom, when > you type abcde, there are a couple of interactive questions then abcde > will rip the CD, encoding to ogg in a subdirectory of the artist's name > with track names. Encoding runs parallel with ripping.

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 05 July 2003 09:48 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > In contrib/, there is abcde. By default, with a CD in /dev/cdrom, when > you type abcde, there are a couple of interactive questions then abcde > will rip the CD, encoding to ogg in a subdirectory of the artist's name > with track names.

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Richard Bown wrote: Hi all a few stats of my system on rip and encode times source audio cd 11 tracks duration 60.1 mins Arson this got in a mess and was aborted K3b rip several hours and up to 60% cpu time (peaks) Xripper rip and encode encode to mp3 30mins 12% cpu time (peaks) Grip rip an

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 05:58 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > KevinO wrote: > >bascule wrote: > >>any advantage over lame on a single cpu box? > > > >SPEED! > > > >Email off-list and will help you find/get a copy if you'd like to try it. > > It integrates well with grip or use standalone from the command

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 06:38 pm, KevinO wrote: > Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > Do you have any documentation for it? > > Nope. All I have ever seen was just the tarball... http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/soft/gogo2/readme_e.txt ...looks like a document to me ..., and on sourceforge there are the la

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread Richard Bown
Hi all a few stats of my system on rip and encode times source audio cd 11 tracks duration 60.1 mins Arson this got in a mess and was aborted K3b rip several hours and up to 60% cpu time (peaks) Xripper rip and encode encode to mp3 30mins 12% cpu time (peaks) Grip rip and encode to ogg 15

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > Do you have any documentation for it? I did see this... : http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/soft/gogo2/readme_e.txt Please note that the use of an mp3 encoder may require, by law, the payment of licensing fees to the paten

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread KevinO
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > Do you have any documentation for it? Nope. All I have ever seen was just the tarball... -- KevinO "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?" -- Lily Tomlin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrake

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
KevinO wrote: bascule wrote: any advantage over lame on a single cpu box? SPEED! Email off-list and will help you find/get a copy if you'd like to try it. It integrates well with grip or use standalone from the command line. The command line options are a little differe

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
KevinO wrote: bascule wrote: any advantage over lame on a single cpu box? SPEED! Email off-list and will help you find/get a copy if you'd like to try it. It integrates well with grip or use standalone from the command line. The command line options are a little differe

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-04 Thread KevinO
bascule wrote: > any advantage over lame on a single cpu box? > SPEED! Email off-list and will help you find/get a copy if you'd like to try it. It integrates well with grip or use standalone from the command line. The command line options are a little different from the others but fairly simple.

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-04 Thread bascule
any advantage over lame on a single cpu box? bascule On Friday 04 Jul 2003 11:38 pm, KevinO wrote: > Ever use Gogo? (Based on Lame, assembly hand optimized for speed. Can use > multiple CPUs.) > > I have seen it do better than 50x compression speeds and it sounds as good > as Lame.(Which sounds

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-04 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bascule wrote: > sorry no, i use lame from the plf notlame package > Ever use Gogo? (Based on Lame, assembly hand optimized for speed. Can use multiple CPUs.) I have seen it do better than 50x compression speeds and it sounds as good as Lame.(Which so

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-04 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wrote: > > Thanks Kevin > > > It will run from a root console, and ripping and encoding is faster than > arson or k3b You may have a corrupted 'settings' file in your home directory (.grip) Just remove it and try it again as a user: rm ~

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-04 Thread bascule
sorry no, i use lame from the plf notlame package bascule On Friday 04 Jul 2003 11:34 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 22:17, bascule wrote: > > have a look in /dev/and see what you do have and try: > > $grip --device=/dev/whatever > > > > bascule > > Thanks bascule that got it sor

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-04 Thread Richard Bown
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 22:17, bascule wrote: > have a look in /dev/and see what you do have and try: > $grip --device=/dev/whatever > > bascule Thanks bascule that got it sorted, just to really confuse things /dev/cdrom =/mnt/cdrom3 Do you know which files I need to load to use mp3encode, drawn a

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-04 Thread bascule
have a look in /dev/and see what you do have and try: $grip --device=/dev/whatever bascule On Friday 04 Jul 2003 11:03 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > Thanks Kevin > > > It will run from a root console, and ripping and encoding is faster than > arson or k3b > > if I try to start from a user console I g

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-04 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks Kevin It will run from a root console, and ripping and encoding is faster than arson or k3b if I try to start from a user console I get Unable to initialize [/dev/cdrom3] I hav'nt got a /dev/cdrom3, I have got a /mnt/cdrom3 so how do I get into its config to change that to one of th

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-04 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wrote: > I'd like to find where this package has disappeared to , its still > listed on the menu but fails to start. Try running grip from the command line in a terminal window and see what that does. Try running it as root just to see if

[expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-04 Thread Richard Bown
Hi, found a nice little cd utilty and player, GRIP, a gtk based thingy. Looked good even had some help docs :) All was well until I shut it down but clicking on the wee X in the top RH corner. But then it would'nt start up again nor would alsaplayer. First step shut down X and restart...no effect