At 11:44 AM 7/15/02 -0400, Matthew Stapleton wrote: >What is the benefit of using OGG over MP3? Is it merely that one is open >source while the other is not?
That's one important consideration. It's a bit more than "Open Source", though (and I must object, at least in passing, to the dismissive "merely" in your question). As I understand it ... though I don't know the details ... there are, at least arguably, patent issues with the MP3 format that make it difficult to offer a low-cost MP3 encoder under any terms. To learn about this, you might want to look at the LAME encoder and see how they've worked around the restrictions. On the other side, OGG is a bit more than "Open Source". I believe its implementations qualify under the somewhat more stringent standard as "free software". Licensing issues aside, some people think the OGG format is technically superior in its sound quality. I can't hear the difference myself, but that may be more my limited ear than anything else. -- -----------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
