[mythtv] mythmusic and mp3 encoder?

John Hurliman jhurliman at myrealbox.com
Fri Jun 20 11:33:42 EDT 2003


Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Thursday 19 June 2003 08:32 am, Tom LeRoux wrote:
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>>well.. mythmusic rips CD's to OV, so why not mp3?  I took a quick look at
>>the LAME libs and it seems as though it can encode OV too (although I
>>haven't tried).. I don't want to get into a coke vs. pepsi war about
>>OV/mp3, but choice is usually a good thing.
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>>I'm more than happy to spend some cycles working on this - or am I the only
>>one who still uses mp3's around here?
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>I just don't see what it'll gain.  The vorbis stuff is equivalent (or better) 
>quality, and the flac encoder means you never have to rip into a different 
>format again, as it's equivalent to just storing the .wavs...  Easy to 
>transcode to with no additional qualtiy loss if you need another format for 
>something else.  Additional encoding options just mean additional 
>complications for the user, unfortunately.
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>Isaac
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As an example I like to burn mp3 CDs and play them in my car, I have yet 
to see a car CD player that is "ogg compatible". I thought the reason 
mp3 encoding was missing though was due to patent issues?

jph




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