Fastest Amiga MP3 encoder?

[selco]

What is the fastest Amiga MP3 encoder? (68k or PPC)Speed is the main issue, more important than best quality.

Is there anything that encodes faster than "Realtime"? (e.g. needs less than 10s to encode 10s of audio)?

regards selco

[lempkee]

heh well quality is the important thing for me, but anyway lame is the fastest for me.

a 3 min song uses about 1min 50 secs (44khz -> 192vbr)

and i use the encoder gui from aminet. (which support more or less every one)

cheers

[lionstorm]

I agree with Lempkee, lame is the one. You can add -f option for fast compression, but of course speed depends on your cpu.
Lio

[LP]

Second Spin is an ok encoder but I'm pretty sure it uses lame too so no difference there besides that it can convert songs directly from CD to MP3 without you having to but CDDA on file first...

It has a nice gui too so if you want to skip the shell typing try it out...

Aminet downloads here

-edit-
Sorry it's not using lame it seems like in the docs...

Give it a go if you fancy it :-)

[selco]

Ok, thanks for the answers. I tried lame 3.20 (ELF) from Aminet. After some trouble with wrong samplingrates and bit resolutions it worked. It was  fast enough for my application.

But I still ended with lot of trouble...

I want ro encode the input from the soundcard directly (mounted AHI-device) and put the output into a pipe. (for reading by another program)

So I did something like this:

lame -b 16 -f audio:TYPE/AIFF/B/16/F/16000/UNIT/3 pipe:test.mp3

and in another shell window
myNextProgram pipe:test.mp3

which sould open pipe:test.mp3 for reading and further processing.

But that did not work. I guess lame had problems with reading the AHI-device...

Any suggestions what could be wrong here?

And another question: Is it possible on the Amiga to do the piping more unix-like? e.g. with some "|" instead of pipe:?

kind regards, selco

[Framiga]

@selco

As already suggested by Lempkee, download this GUI TheMpegEncGui and all will be easyer :-)

It is a mailware and supports OGG endoders also.

Ciao

[mendark]

Try NCODER from Titan, it's free and fast. Quality is bad, but it's pretty fast ;-)

I'm curious if the PIPE thingie works. Tried it before with MAKECD, to burn onthefly ermm.. onthefly an audio stream. Hope to get it work!

[selco]

>Try NCODER from Titan, it's free ...
Is it? As a good Amigian I paid some mony for it when it was new ;-)

Well, the important thing for me is really to encode the audiostream from AHI-device and to put the result into a pipe.

I just found much newer version at http://www.honeypot.net/audio/
(3.92)

Maybe that works better with a raw input stream.

[lempkee]

selco: use LAME WOS version , i forgot the direct link but hopefully someone can provide him with it?

its not on aminet anyway (the newst).

and for streaming ahi units, thats what i do all day so yes it works with it, but i use the mpegenc gui on aminet (framiga gave u the link)

forget encoder, use lame and the gui , east fast and reliable!

second spin aint bad either!

cheers

[selco]

It would be really nice if someone could point my to that WOS version. I tried several LAMEs now, but they didn't support the "-r" option, so no chance for raw streams as input.
As you (lempkee) told explicitly that you are doing exactly this, the version you use seems to be the one I need.
Even a link to an older version on Aminet would be nice.

I tried TheMpegEncGUI too and it looks very nice. every parameter selectable. But that not solve my problem if the used LAME version not supports the option I want

[selco]

Could anybody point me a URL of a (PPC) LAME version that supports the "-r" option, e.g. reading sound directly from AHI-device? (raw data, no seek-operation on the input data)