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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: nwnerd on November 17, 2004, 10:31:43 pm
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Hello,
I'm using MC 9.1 & recently upgraded a bunch of my hardware which resulted in my having to do a nuke & pave. When I re-installed & registered MC 9.1, I had to download the Lame encoder to rip/encode to mp3. Well, the upshot is that the encoding is extremely slow. When the setting is for rip/encode simultaneously, it shows less than 1x for ripping, whereas it used to show 6x-7x on my old, slower machine. ? I don't think it's a hardware problem because the .ape encoder seems to work fine at up to 17x, which is faster than my old machine. I've checked DMA settings, etc in my hardware profiles & they are enabled, & so far on this hardware rebuild this is the only software problem that I've run into. So can anyone help with this? I'd much appreciate it.
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You should check out this thread (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=24291). Start at the bottom and work your way backwards. It may be related.
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Thanks for the link. I may be able to pull the old lame.exe file off of my old setup since I haven't formatted the drive yet. If not, that thread gave me some alternate ways of getting around the problem, hopefully something will work.
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Omni,
I just wanted to say thanks again for the heads up & to post my solution. I was able to retrieve the old Lame.exe file from the old pc before I formatted the drive & that fixed the slow ripping problem. My ripping/encoding speeds are hitting 11x, much better than the 0.9x that I was seeing before.
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Glad that link led to your solution! :)
BTW, if you ever lose your favorite encoder, you can generally find it again at RareWares (http://www.rarewares.org) if all else fails. (The name is a misnomer of sorts. It is not a piracy site!!!!! :o :P)
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All the links and info you will ever need for the Lame encoder are on the sticky threads at the top of the MP3 board at HA:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showforum=15 (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showforum=15)
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All the links and info you will ever need for the Lame encoder are on the sticky threads at the top of the MP3 board at HA:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showforum=15 (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showforum=15)
Actually, that's not true, hence why I didn't cite that link. ;) They only provide a direct link to 3.90.3. To easily find all the other variants, one needs to visit Roberto's site. :)