On 07/02/14 19:31, Andrew Kelley wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Justin Ruggles > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> As you can see from .extensions, the ogg muxer isn't only used for .ogg >> files (although maybe we could add .oga to that list). FLAC was chosen for >> the default because it is lossless and we have a good native encoder. An >> alternative could be to default to Vorbis only if the libvorbis encoder is >> enabled, similar to what we do for H.264 in the mov/mp4 muxer. >> >> > As a user, if I use a filename with a ".ogg" for the output of an audio > conversion, I expect that to be Ogg Vorbis, because that is what .ogg files > are supposed to have. I don't expect the program to have a philosophical > internal debate about which codecs are better than others.
IIRC, since our vorbis encoder is not exactly high quality we got asked by many not to enable it by default to avoid the generation of horrible encodings by default. We could enable vorbis output if the libvorbis encoder is available, otherwise fallback to flac. lu _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
