Is there any software that acts like the 'flac' binary but actually does the decoding on a remote host? I'm interested in having at least one faster machine contribute, but preferably more than one. Since the application is ripping CDs, perhaps different machines could take on different files? It would be *amazing* if different hosts could process different parts of the same file. I understand there is some software for doing this kind of MP3 files and Ogg Vorbis. Is there an analog for FLAC files? Thanks to all, Asheesh. -- (This is what Fortune gave me. Does it mean my ex?) You will be held hostage by a radical group.
--- Josh Coalson <xflac@yahoo.com> wrote:> cat file.wav | ssh -c 'flac -c -' user@host > file.flacsorry, the syntax is bad, probably more like cat file.wav | ssh user@host 'flac -c -' > file.flac but you get the idea... Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
--- Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org> wrote:> Is there any software that acts like the 'flac' binary but actually > does > the decoding on a remote host? > > I'm interested in having at least one faster machine contribute, but > preferably more than one. Since the application is ripping CDs, > perhaps > different machines could take on different files? It would be > *amazing* > if different hosts could process different parts of the same file.I think you could do one-machine-one-file with rsh/ssh, like cat file.wav | ssh -c 'flac -c -' user@host > file.flac or something like that. You won't get a total_samples value in the STREAMINFO block that way though; for that you'll have to flac onto an NFS-mounted dir or something. multi-machines-one-file takes a true distributed encoder, which is a project by itself. Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com