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Subject: [WriteLog] Audio Compression Selection
From: w2up@mindspring.com (Barry Kutner)
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:58:15 -0400
George,
The MP3 compression comes from other Windows programs on 
the computer. If you download Windows Media Player and/or Real 
Audio Player, I suspect MP3 will appear on your list.
73 Barry

On 19 Jun 01, at 10:08, George Johnson wrote:

> 
> We plan to record the Field Day log activity this weekend on a second
> computer with WriteLog networked to the first machine.  All seems well
> in the setup except for options for compression.
> 
> In an earlier post, Chas, K3WW, described his results with MPEG
> Layer-3 compression which sounded very promising for us.  However, I
> cannot find that choice in my "list" of compression selections.  I get
> items like PCM, CCITT, Lernout & Hauspie etc but no MPEG.  My tests
> are showing something like 960MB for a 24 hour record.  This is about
> double what the MPEG choice would produce.  I also see that MP3 is
> mentioned in the Help section.
> 
> I am running WL v10.26B.  Have there been changes in the compression
> choices?  Can someone recommend a compression scheme for our one radio
> CW operation?  I was testing with PCM, 11 Kb/s 8 bit Mono.  Quality
> seems OK but storage looks like about 40 MB/hr.
> 
> Thanks,
> George .. W1ZT
> 
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