On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:45:50AM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:ogg is really just a container format, like AVI. When is commonly referred to as ogg-compression is in fact vorbis-compression. AFAIK Vorbis is the only format currently commonly used within Ogg, but in the end it's supposed to be a container for both audio and video (and metadata).
Quoting David Gethings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:44, Spider wrote:
Well, if that's the case, may I suggest "flac" ? ( emerge flac ).
OMG! Why have I not heard of this codec before! This is exactly what I've been looking for!
Thanks Spider! Now I have to re-rip my CD collection. ;)
In case you're wondering, you have to specify the --ogg option to make it completely Ogg-compatible. Here's my flac line:
$ flac -V --ogg -8 -o something.flac something.wav
-V verifies the conversion
-8 gives maximum (lossless) compression
-o names the output file
When you say "ogg-compatible" do you mean that it'll be identified as an
ogg file by anything that plays ogg (the docs and FAQ aren't completely
clear on this). IE: I can have completely lossless compression and have
it appear to be an ogg file? Or am I missing something....
When you specify --ogg, the flac stream is embedded into an ogg-container. I don't think it's really useful.
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