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[Drow@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Aduanne Carter)]

Aduanne Carter wrote:
> 
> I use xcdroast's readcdda piped to sox to make it a wav file.  I did
> this under 6.0, 6.2 fine.  Now runs verry slow... The actual readcdda
> part is very fast( about 1 minute for a 5 minute song ) by itself(36x
> cdrom), but when I pipe it to a fifo and have sox read the fifo and
> convert it to a wav file, the readcdda part slows up greatly.... to 1x
> speed it seems.  Infact the whole sox conversion process is much slower
> now.  Does sox use fifos to do the conversion?  Are slow fifos the
> problem or is sox now slower?  I've used this process in both 6.0 and
> 6.1 to rip and encode mp3's and this part of the process has always been
> verry fast.  Piping it to sox never slowed up the process like this.
> Then to top it off the wavfile is incomplete and has premature EOF!
> I've tried cdparanoia too but that gives me the following error:
> 
> SCSI transport error: timeout waiting to read packet
> 
> SCSI transport error: timeout waiting to write packet
> 
> Even recompiled cdparanoia from source rpm, same error...
> Not really concerned about cdparanoia not working just want my fast
> fifos back.
> 
> Any ideas what may have changed?  SuSE6.2( duh ), Kernel 2.2.12, SCSI
> emulation for my CD-ROM and CD-R.

To give an idea of the difference... before upgrading I could rip a 5
minute track(approx 60megs), sox it to a wav, and encode it to mp3(192
kb) in about 7 minutes.  Now it takes 12 minutes!  Almost twice as
long.  I am going to try recompiling sox on my own and see if that
helps.


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