On 10 Feb 2002, Daniel Rees wrote:
What package would you recommend for encoding Ogg Vorbis files?
There is only one: the official package. 'oggenc' is the tool to use to encode them. The Ogg Vorbis (which typically sounds as good as MP3 using 30% less bits) tools can be downloaded from http://www.vorbis.com in the Software section. Download the RedHat RPMs (don't worry, they are FHS compliant and work on my SuSE machine), specifically: libao, libogg, libvorbis, vorbis- tools, in that order. Ogg Vorbis uses quality settings, not bitrate settings because when encoding you usually want constant quality, not constant bitrate. The default ('-q3') usually creates an ogg file that sounds as good as, if not better than, a CBR 128KB/s MP3. Grip [http://www.nostatic.org/grip/] is a nice CD-ripper / -encoder which supports the Ogg Vorbis format. Feel free to contact me for more information. -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0