where to obtain LAME 4.0 sources

2006-05-28 08:13:45

I'm interested in testing LAME 4.0 on my OS X machine but I can't seem to find the cvs repository for it. Searching for "LAME 4.0" yields very little. I realise it's output is probably worse quality than 3.97b2, I'm just interested to see where it's heading and what's currently different. Searching for LAME CVS keeps coming up with http://lame.sourceforge.net/download/src/ which is obviously very old.

Any ideas?

BTW iTunes-LAME.app (a LAME encoder for iTunes) works awesomely on x86 macs, for anyone who has one. I set it up on my friends MacBook Pro and he was getting 2x 15-16x encode speeds (yay dualcore!) with -V 3 --vbr-new. You just need to replace the package's lame binary with a native x86 one.

where to obtain LAME 4.0 sources

Reply #1 – 2006-05-28 08:28:15

You need to use a CVS client. Details at Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/

I think "takehiro-2002_05_07-experimental" is the lame4 branch, but I'm not totally sure.

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lame co -r takehiro-2002_05_07-experimental lame

where to obtain LAME 4.0 sources

Reply #2 – 2006-05-28 08:45:12

cvs access has changed on SF...might be :

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@lame.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lame co -r takehiro-2002_05_07-experimental lame

where to obtain LAME 4.0 sources

Reply #3 – 2006-05-28 09:52:00

Be aware that the current lame 4.0 alpha code only provides VBR if compiled without nasm support on win32. IIRC, the nasm code does currently work if you compile for win64. I realise you're interest is in OS X, but just to let you know you may have some issues.