On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andre Pang wrote:

> there's a free GPL MPEG-2 encoder at
> http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~mikecheng/ called TooLame,

$ man toolame

TOOLAME(1)                                             TOOLAME(1)

NAME
       toolame - MPEG-1 layer 2 audio encoder

...

NOT MPEG-2!

*groan* that's almost as bad as people thinking MP3 is short for MPEG-III.

MPEG-I layer 2 is used in the VCD and SVCD standards.

> (okay, i'm curious now -- why 3 channels?  i guess it's not
> because you have hot/cold/inverted signal lines coming from a
> mic ... :)

Good question. Maybe a limited form of surround sound with a rear channel? Or
maybe the third channel is a limited bass channel, in which case joint-stero
might cover his needs. 

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