[MPlayer-dev-eng] audio quality

Gábor Lénárt lgb at lgb.hu
Fri Aug 20 20:49:41 CEST 2004


On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:01:01PM -0700, Glyco-Radio Network wrote:
> Hi Diego - 
> 
> If I use MPlayer (rather than encoder), I've found the following works:
> 
> -dumpstream mms://mydomain.com/mystream -dumpfile test.blah
> 
> But I get a 8Khz recorded stream and have no idea what format its
> actually dumping too.

It dumps with a format which is used to broadcast the stream.
So the original format uses 8KHz sampling rate?
 
> I would like to increase the quality.

?? This is not possible, you can't get better quality than the source
itself.

> I would prefer it dump it to a WM9 pr MP3 format (with tailored
> settings).

No, it is not possible. DUMP means dump. You want real time transcode,
or something similar it seems.

> I would prefer it do it without launching an MS-DOS window

- Gábor (larta'H)




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