From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 14 20:08:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3226816A4BF for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:08:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out003.verizon.net (out003pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2576243F3F for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:08:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.237.14.199]) by out003.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030915030759.OWNX29617.out003.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:07:59 -0500 Message-ID: <3F652D08.2010209@mac.com> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:07:52 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Todd Stephens References: <200309142241.52695.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200309142241.52695.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [68.237.14.199] at Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:07:59 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ogg encoding X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 03:08:01 -0000 Todd Stephens wrote: > I found a port for mp32ogg to convert mp3 to ogg format, but is there a > program to convert wav to ogg format? I like the ogg format, but it > seems to me that there will be some data loss going from wav to mp3 and > then to ogg. There will be data loss in converting from mp3 to ogg format because mp3 is already using lossy compression. You want to ogg the original source data, although a 44.1 KHz .wav file is basicly raw PCM audio plus a header, anyway. Anyway, look for something called sox, which is a good sound format converter utility. -- -Chuck