From: mrlipring <mrlipring_at_tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:44:11 +0100

Ok, but again, why not strip it out himself? it'll save a lot of space for
one (why have 50mb taken up by a video the archos can't play? 5mb for the
audio track instead) and it's an instant solution.

----- Original Message -----
From: <mr.escape_at_gmx.de>
To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: MPEG extraction?


> At 14:11 10.10.2003, you wrote:
> >why don't YOU strip out the audio? anyway, the audio in avi files is
often
> >mp3, not mpeg-1 or 2 files.
>
> That's right (well almost always mpeg1 layer 3, occasionally mpeg2 layer 3
> or some old or unusual codec), but <mailto:Choi.Minuk_at_verizon.net>Minuk
> <mailto:Choi.Minuk_at_verizon.net>Choi was talking about mpeg files, thinking
> about demuxing the audio (mpeg 1 or rarely mpeg2 layer 2) part, similar to
> some players able to play the wma part in asf movies.
>
> mr.escape
> >
> >i don't think the archos' cpu is fast enough to be able to take out the
> >audio in real time.
>
> Just demuxing is not that much demanding. Only stress for the hd and the
> battery.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <mailto:Choi.Minuk_at_verizon.net>Minuk Choi
> >To: <mailto:rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
> >Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:40 PM
> >Subject: MPEG extraction?
> >
> >Just out of curiosity... the MP3 decoder hardware... would it be possible
> >to say, write a plugin that would go through an MPEG movie file and strip
> >out the video part and send the audio part to the decoder?
> >
> >Kinda like, for music videos.... 'cause some of them have audio encoded
by
> >MPEG-3
> >
> >
> >BTW-did anyone else get like a bunch of mail which are copies from
several
> >weeks ago?
> >-Mark
>
Received on 2003-10-10