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Ok, i've had loads of questions from mac users about mpeg on their platform. Unfortunately, after searching the net everywhere i could think of that is even vaguely related to digital audio and mac or mpeg or audio compression, i haven't found any executable that encodes mpeg on the mac, nor adpcm wav. That is of course freeware/shareware. I dont really get it i'll tell you, as the sources have been available for so long... Isn't there a Mac owner who has a compiler? (i do have a mac, but only an old lightspeed C compiler). So, for now there seem to be only Unix, PC and Amiga versions available on the net... I'm putting together a good www page about info/source/whatever on audio compression, and i'll announce it as soon as it is up. If you cant wait get the MPEG FAQ on comp.dsp (or on rtfm.mit.edu). Ciao, -- Francois Dion (IdMEDIA) [> Email: francois@hyperreal.com <] ' [> C.P. 278, St-Lambert, QC, Canada, J4P 2N8 <] [> Raving Up North Ezine: run-request@hyperreal.com, subject: help <]

quoted 6 lines Ok, i've had loads of questions from mac users about mpeg on their platform.

> Ok, i've had loads of questions from mac users about mpeg on their platform. > Unfortunately, after searching the net everywhere i could think of that is > even vaguely related to digital audio and mac or mpeg or audio compression, > i haven't found any executable that encodes mpeg on the mac, nor adpcm wav. > > That is of course freeware/shareware.

[snip] I found an MPEG utility for the Mac called Sparkle. I have two versions of it: Sparkle16 and Sparkle202. I have not been able to get it to work, mostly because I only had a couple of MPEG clips at the time and they may have been corrupted. Since then I forgot I even had it until I saw this message. I don't remember where I found it, but it was from an FTP site... I bet archie could find it quickly. Hope that helps, JT

On Tue, 11 Oct 1994, JT wrote:

quoted 21 lines Ok, i've had loads of questions from mac users about mpeg on their platform.

> > Ok, i've had loads of questions from mac users about mpeg on their platform. > > Unfortunately, after searching the net everywhere i could think of that is > > even vaguely related to digital audio and mac or mpeg or audio compression, > > i haven't found any executable that encodes mpeg on the mac, nor adpcm wav. > > > > That is of course freeware/shareware. > > [snip] > > I found an MPEG utility for the Mac called Sparkle. I have two > versions of it: Sparkle16 and Sparkle202. I have not been able to get > it to work, mostly because I only had a couple of MPEG clips at the > time and they may have been corrupted. Since then I forgot I even had > it until I saw this message. > > I don't remember where I found it, but it was from an FTP site... I > bet archie could find it quickly. > > Hope that helps, > JT >

Special note about Sparkle: you'll need to have the Thread Manager system extension in place before Sparkle will work... I think it is available from the Apple ftp site... Regards, mark