On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:57:04AM -0400, Daniel Monjar wrote: > What is the benefit of Ogg over mp3 format? Is it just a legal thing or > are there size and/or audio benefits to Ogg as well?
Quality difference is largely perception; a few of my younger friends claim Vorbis reproduces the higher frequencies better. (FWIW, I trust their judgment because their hearing is more acute; YMMV.) There was also discussion on the frame boundaries (mp3 codecs don't handle them correctly), so separation between bitstreams can be eliminated to be "truly gapless." Also, decoding is simpler (but usually requires more memory). I should refer you to: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/vorbis-spec-intro.html for the gory details. I use Vorbis with [Net-]Rhythmbox, which will be a nice iTunesish application. -- Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.unc.edu/~crimsun/pubkey.gpg.asc _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
