Looking for a cheap MP3 encoder IC

[yo8tot]

Hi,
Is there any cheap IC that can encode MP3 ? Or an PIC32MX is powerful enough to encode mp3 at telephone quality? I want to send voice over ethernet in mp3 format.
thanks

 

[bancho]

VLSI Solution has a VS1063 MP3 encoder and decoder IC. It can encode MP3 and OGG vorbis and it can decode MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG, FLAC and some other formats.

 

[horace1]

if you do a web search for dspic mp3 you will turn up lots of links
in particular there is a Thread on the Microchip dsPIC30F topics discussing dsPIC audio player, see
dsPic audio player ?