[mp3togo] file format suggestion

[Justus Pendleton]

Sam Liddicott wrote:
> sim writes:
>> On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 11:07:05AM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
>>> Maybe mp3togo could use mplayer (if installed), thus:
>>> mplayer -ao pcm:file=TEMPFILE.wav otherformat.ra

gstreamer can do similar things with gst-launch. It might be nice to try 
to support as many decoders as possible, if we find them installed.

> strangely the mp3 is twice the size me the real file but i did convert 
> to wav manually first.

That's what I would expect. Real Audio is frequently encoded at 16 kbps, 
whereas the default mp3togo lame encoding is much, much higher.