[mp3encoder] [Fwd: RE: LAMEACM.ACM crash]

2004-04-22 Thread Steve Lhomme
FYI... I really don't have the time to check what is wrong here. So if anybody has the time/skills (I may be available online for help)... Original Message Subject:RE: LAMEACM.ACM crash Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:44:29 -0700 From: Peter Baer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[mp3encoder] [Fwd: Program crash regarding LAME MP3 CODEC]

2004-04-22 Thread Steve Lhomme
Seems like I'm going to get tons of this now... :( Original Message Subject:Program crash regarding LAME MP3 CODEC Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:53:59 -0700 (PDT) From: sirisak chakavarnmongkol [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HI I contacted Microsoft about

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME ACM encoder usage

2003-01-15 Thread Steve Lhomme
Lee Kupersmith wrote: Has anyone successfully installed the LAME ACM version as the MP3 encoder for Windows Media Player 8 or 9? Microsoft provides instructions for installing an ACM encoder in their Knowledgebase article 306494 - Description of the MP3 Encoding Plug-In for Windows Media

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-16 Thread Steve Lhomme
Gabriel Bouvigne wrote: Hi Steve, The problem was that the initial VBR tag (all zero's) was inserted into the MP3 file for CBR files, so when the beWriteVbrTag function was not called at the end of the encoding process you end up with an empty frame at the beginning of the MP3 file.

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-14 Thread Steve Lhomme
Chris Holt wrote: --- Steve Lhomme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually it's a bug of the application using the LAME DLL. At the end of the encoding the application should ask LAME for the VBR frame and write it at the start of the file. Just switch to a good LAME DLL user app :) I'm still

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-13 Thread Steve Lhomme
Chris Holt wrote: Dear nirv: Had this problem too and found (with a hex reader) that 3.92 puts a frame filled with zeros at the start of an MP3. The sony does not like this and assumes the file is something other than an MP3 when it sees the leading zeros. If you put an ID3 v2 tag

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Fake frames

2002-07-02 Thread Steve Lhomme
Gabriel Bouvigne wrote: I'm currently writing a simple tool to convert MP3 (and later MP2 and MP1) to correct WAV files (with the exact bitrate, even for VBR files) that could be muxed with video accurately... I was thinking that it was already the case with the acm codec. Could you explain

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] non-standard WAV codec

2002-02-05 Thread Steve Lhomme
Quoting Prendergast, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello- Does anyone know of a way to tell LAME to use a specific WAV codec when encoding WAV to MP3? There is currently no way (AFAIK know) and I don't think it's planned. The best way should be to use an ACM standalone program to convert the

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] non-standard WAV codec

2002-02-05 Thread Steve Lhomme
Nop, the (official) lame ACM codec cannot decode yet :( So the FhG will do it for now. Ishaan Dalal wrote: WAV codec? Considering the bloated simplicity of the PCM format, I don't think the default Windows codec is inadequate. If it's MP3, you might want to have Lame ACM do the decode (can

[MP3 ENCODER] DLL bug (bis)

2001-12-21 Thread Steve Lhomme
Here are the debugging info I have when I encode to 44kHz/96 kbps and I get a 32kHz/96 kbps file/stream : 11373866.37184939 [288] Lame_enc configuration options: 11383866.37220055 [288] == 1139

[MP3 ENCODER] encoding bug

2001-12-21 Thread Steve Lhomme
Hello (again), It seems there is a bug in the LAME DLL (at least). I'm encoding fine with a lot of different parameters. But there are some parameters that produce good MP3 files but not with the specified parameters. For example when I encode a 44kHz, 16 bits, stereo file at 96 kbps (MPEG1)

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] DLL bug (bis)

2001-12-21 Thread Steve Lhomme
Quoting Gabriel Bouvigne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here are the debugging info I have when I encode to 44kHz/96 kbps and I get a 32kHz/96 kbps file/stream : ... 1161 3866.37668017 [288] Disable Resorvoir =1 Is this one on purpose? Seems strange to disable bit reservoir On purpose

[MP3 ENCODER] More on 3.90

2001-12-21 Thread Steve Lhomme
As I wanted to know what was going on inside the DLL (for the bug I told before) I downloaded the 3.90 tar.gz source code and tried to compile using MS VC++ 6.0. Despite the fact the the given .dsw and .dsp refuse to load in VC6 (I guess it relies on VC5) I nearly managed to compile the DLL

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Lame recognition

2001-12-20 Thread Steve Lhomme
Quoting Gabriel Bouvigne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1 step forward for Lame, but 1 step backward for freedom: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8225543.html?tag=hot http://www.musichelponline.com/legal/ They don't give reasons why they use LAME. But I'm really curious to know. I'm not sure if

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] (no subject)

2001-12-13 Thread Steve Lhomme
I don't have that problem. If you want an example of something working (I did) try http://mukoli.free.fr/out_lame/ Scott E. Graves wrote: I am using lame_enc.dll, slightly customized, to allow conversion from raw pcm to cbr/vbr mp3. I experience a slight pop at the beginning of each

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Feature request

2001-10-11 Thread Steve Lhomme
|Else, you have to use the tools available for your | enviroment. Maybe you should find a frontend Razorlame like | program that could make use of many little applications | together. It would be great, for instance, to resample with | ssrc and then feed the output to lame. Simple to do it in

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] concept of open source (or in particular of the GPL)

2001-10-07 Thread Steve Lhomme
|No, contrary to this belief, all that is needed is to | contact each and everyone of the people ever involved in the | project, to agree for a change of the license. Then of course, | all versions before retain their GPL status, but not those | following. (This procedure can also be used to

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] lame_enc.dll - MPEG-2 encoding. Possible?

2001-09-20 Thread Steve Lhomme
Try my winamp plugin for that (you can automate using playlist :) http://mukoli.free.fr/out_lame/ The sources are also there. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] lame_enc.dll - MPEG-2