On Sun, 13 May 2001, Jens Benecke wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:13:36AM -0600, Bernd Roebke-Lange wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > is there any possibility to compress wma files with avifile ??
>
> I suppose you mean WMV (WMA is audio).
no i mean wma (audio)
>
> what on earth do you want with WMV? There is no way back (MS specifically
> doesn't provide APIs to convert WMV back to open formats because they don't
> want you to), and the quality is crap (see current c't magazine, they
> tested WMV against e.g. Real, OpenDivX and DivX and the DivX codecs won
> clearly at high bitrates, while Real excelled at low bitrates).
>
> WMV is not primarily a video codec (it would be a bad one if it were), it's
> a means to lock yourself on Windows. And it's a way for MS to appease the
> MPAA, because it contains copy control meachanisms. Which I suppose you
> don't want to have.
>
>
> If you want an alternative to MP3, which also is patent-free and doesn't
> include any copyrighted stuff, use OggVorbis.
>
i use ogg on my computer ... the problem is my mp3 player (hipzip) dont
understand ogg and mp3 in low bitrates doesn`t sound good ... it`s common
to use wma in portable mp3 players and i think there are alot poeple out
there looking for a wma comressor for linux because of this
>
> Just my EUR 0.02
>
>
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