[MPlayer-dev-eng] audio quality

[Attila Kinali]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:01:01PM -0700, Glyco-Radio Network wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I would like to increase the quality.
> I would prefer it dump it to a WM9 pr MP3 format (with tailored
> settings).
> I would prefer it do it without launching an MS-DOS window

Dont use windows then ;)

> I *looked into* Vorbis as you suggested but have no idea where to start
> or how to record a stream of audio via command line as simply as
> -dumpstream with MPlayer.  This seems to be exactly what I'm looking
> for, providing I can accomplish the above three tasks.

-dumpstream is mainly for debuging, not for encoding. 
If you really want to get it encoded to something else use a named
pipe and feed it to lame/oggenc/whatever

Please read also 
http://learn.to/edit_messages
and
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html

TOFU is considered a really bad thing.

			Attila Kinali