If I can just add one thing. Another good reason to use Ogg is that it is so easy to encode CD's using the Audio I/O slave.
Just put a CD in the drive and then in Konqueror select 'Services' in the left hand pane then 'Audio CD Browser>Ogg Vorbis' then drag and drop the tracks into another konqueror window and its done... The ogg parameters are set in KDE ControlCentre>Sound, but in KDE2.2 it ignores the encoding rate parameter and always encodes at 350kbps KDE3.0 works correctly If anyone knows how to set the encoding rate correctly for KDE2.2 I would be grateful. The konqueror audio I/O slave can also encode mp3's this way, but I think you have to have the lame library installed when KDE is compiled, so the standard Mandrake KDE does not do it. derek On Saturday 20 April 2002 2:02 am, you wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 21:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > The adavntage of Ogg Vorbis is not its compression speed, but rather that > > it is an entirely different format from MP3. MP3 is owned by Fraunhoffer > > and Thompson, and using encoders like Lame and Gogo is actually illegal. > > Ogg Vorbis is fully open source (with a BSD-style license IIRC) -- there > > are no patents or copyrights to deal with. Anyone can legally write an > > Ogg Vorbis encoder, and I'm sure that people will once the official one > > reaches 1.0 (it's in the Release Candidate stage right now). Ogg Vorbis > > is a far more advanced format than MP3. It can attain similar quality to > > an MP3 file in about half the space, or twice the quality in the same > > space. > > Wow...new information. Thanks, Sridhar! > > > With its benefits of improved compression and quality, Ogg Vorbis is > > bound to take longer to compress than MP3. But you only need to compress > > a file once, and you can listen to it an unlimited number of times. I > > would take better quality over encoding speed any day :) > > I'll sure as heck second that. > > > The only disadvantage is that so far there is only one known portable > > player for the format (the Sharp Zaurus), but that will change. From a > > licensing perspective, Ogg Vorbis support is actually more attractive to > > manufacturers than MP3 support (Ogg is free but MP3 requires royalties to > > be paid for every unit sold). > > > > -- > > Sridhar Dhanapalan > > > > "The "Internet" cannot be removed from your Desktop. > > Do you want to delete the "Internet" now?" > > -- Microsoft Windows 95 > > Looks like I've found the perfect format to store internet broadcasts > with. :) Thanks, Sridhar! > > L8R, > > LX
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