On Monday 21 November 2005 10:50, Mark Jordan wrote: >the article mentioned using the Ogg or Flac codecs. Is there a tool >that easily converts mp3 to these formats? can ogg or flac be put onto >cds and played? when i means simple it would be nice to have something >like "convert foo.mp3 bar.ogg" Flac is a lossless compression utility, but its output would not be hugely smaller than a .wav. I haven't used it but I'd expect it to be indistinguishable from the original. Ogg, OTOH, does have some losses, but for my ears, anything above a Q6 setting at encode time is indestinguishable from the original, and generates file sizes comparable to mp3's at 128k, or smaller. I can't say that the 128k mp3 is even listenable, giveing me a very high fatigue factor after 5 minutes or so. So I think the statement that ogg is better than mp3 at any comparable filesize is quit true. > >Many tia > >Mark > >On 11/21/05, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 13:36 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: >> > As for Helix, the Realplayer 10 >> > for Linux binary from Real includes support for closed codecs, >> > including mp3. >> >> Agreed. >> On x86 anyway - remove HelixPlayer and install RealPlayer - AFAIK >> everything HelixPlayer does is done better by totem anyway. >> >> -- >> fedora-list mailing list >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >-- >http://theExile.vze.com >http://www.stpaulswalsall.org.uk > >This message is best viewed with your eyes. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
