Re: [SLE] SuSE Personal 7.3 and Professional 7.3
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:43:05AM +0000, Tom Wesley wrote:
MP3 encoding software required some sort of license to be legal in some countries, and therefore isnt included on the Standard or Pro SuSE distribution. It can be downloaded though, of course. Try search for bladeenc. Or just revert to using ogg vorbis files, the seem to sound better anyway.
Oh, thanks for that Tom. What package would you recommend for encoding Ogg Vorbis files? -- Daniel Rees e: dan@dwrees.co.uk w: http://www.dwrees.co.uk
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
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