From: Dennis Oelkers <dennis@...>
Date: 2003-11-23T06:33:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby classes for MP3 de-/encoding

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 06:22:16AM +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> In article <20031122191549.GB3071@tachyon.bsdgeek.net>,
> Dennis Oelkers  <dennis@sgi-powered.de> wrote:
[snip]
> >Thanks for all your help, but it seems as if you misunderstood my question
> >a bit. I'm not looking for classes to extract metadata information, I want
> >to encode/decode MP3 data.
> >
> 
> I would think this would be very compute intensive (all those dicrete 
> cosine transforms, which as I recall, are performed would take a lot of 
> time in Ruby).  If you want to do this from Ruby, wouldn't it be best to 
> find an already existing C library and wrap it to create an extension?

Yes, that's what I was looking for, ruby bindings for a C lib doing MP3
encoding/decoding, but the only thing which is comparable to that is
ruby-gstreamer. I'll evaluate it intensively, if it isn't sufficient for
my task I'll probably write liblame/libwhatever bindings on my own. :(

> Phil

Kind regards,
		Dennis Oelkers