Fw: ffmpeg to speexenc

[Tom Sparks]

--- On Sat, 13/3/10, Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Fw: ffmpeg to speexenc
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Received: Saturday, 13 March, 2010, 3:44 AM
> On 03/12/2010 12:57 AM, Tom Sparks
> wrote:
> > --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> From: Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net>
> >> Subject: Re: Fw: ffmpeg to speexenc
> >> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for
> general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >> Received: Friday, 12 March, 2010, 7:38 PM
> >> On 03/11/2010 08:17 PM, Tom Sparks
> >> wrote:
> >>     
> >>>> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:30:02 -0800
> >>>> From: Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net>
> >>>> Subject: Re: Fw: ffmpeg to speexenc
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> > [SNIP]
> >
> > I have send a email to speex-dev at xiph.org
> about this
> >   
> 
> But were you able to get it to work?  Using one of the
> ffmpeg supported 
> PCM formats?
> 
no :(
> Just curious.  What does converting to speex format do
> for you?

speex is a FLOSS lossy codec designed for speech
see http://www.speex.org/

a lot of what I am transcoding is audio of people speaking

>  And 
> what does the skeleton option do?

see http://wiki.xiph.org/Ogg_Skeleton

>  While I was
> fiddling around with this 
> I googled a bit, but found nothing enlightening.

tom sparks