Sam Phillips wrote:
> Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> > ogg - free, unencumbered audio codec. [...]
>
> Ogg is not an audio codec. Ogg is a generic media wrapper
> (kinda like quicktime.) Ogg Vorbis is the lossy audio codec
> that everyone calls Ogg.
True. Thanks for clarifying.
Also, on a similar note, let me add that, while most of the
codecs I listed were by the file extension most commonly
associated with them, the entry for AAC was incomplete.
AAC (I presume one of the A's stands for Apple, but I think
I heard somewhere that that's not true) encoded files are
usually found with either a '.m4a' or '.m4p' extension, the
former being a normal AAC-encoded file, the latter being
'protected' (ie, DRM'd). Songs you "import" in iTunes in AAC
will have a '.m4a' extension; songs purchased on iTunes Music
Store will have '.m4p'.
I believe the extension is because the AAC encoder uses an MPEG4
container, like the Ogg Vorbis codec is found in an Ogg wrapper.
My USD$0.05... scattered about like my thoughts,
Tim
--
Two penguins were walking on an iceberg. The first penguin
said to the second, "you look like you are wearing a tuxedo."
The second penguin said, "I might be..."
--David Lynch, Twin Peaks
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