mpg123audiodec alternative

[Tim Müller]

On Sun, 2017-02-05 at 23:10 -0800, debruyn wrote:

Hi,

> So I have been playing around with audio streaming, and currently
> transcoding an audio stream and placing it on icecast.
> pipeline architecture as follows: 
> 
> udpsrc | rtpmpadepay |  mpegaudioparse | mpg123audiodec | vorbisenc |
> oggmux
> > shout2send.
> 
> This works fine, but my question is if there is an alternative for
> the
> mpg123audiodec element? mpg123audiodec lies in the ugly packages and
> since i built the 1.8 libraries for centos i never built ugly, only
> base,good,bad and libav. Trying to avoid the ugly packages, so any
> alternative would be appreciated.

Well, quality wise "ugly" is like "good". Latest Fedora has
mpg123audiodec as a separate package I believe, maybe you can just
rebuild that. There's also a good chance that the plugin can move to
-good in the near future, fwiw.

Cheers
 -Tim

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