Le Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 09:17:52AM -0700, Craig Dickson a écrit: > Julien Danjou wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-28 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name : mp32ogg > > Version : 0.11 > > Upstream Author : Nathan Walp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : http://faceprint.com/software.phtml > > * License : Artistic License > > Description : Converts mp3 file to Ogg Vorbis > > Aside from the possible legal difficulties involved in adding to Debian > yet another program that needs or incorporates an mp3 decoder, I object > to this program on the grounds of stupidity. Transcoding from mp3 to > vorbis cannot improve sound quality,
Nobody says that. > and will almost certainly degrade > it, since the resulting vorbis file will retain all the mp3 artifacts > and add vorbis artifacts as well (which are admittedly much more subtle > than mp3 artifacts, but still quite real). It is much better to > re-encode from the original source material if at all possible; if you > can't do that, and can't leave it in mp3 format for whatever reason, > then transcoding to vorbis is as easy as converting the mp3's to .wav > format and then running them through oggenc. This is so trivial that > there's no need for a dedicated program in the Debian repository to do > it. Maybe, but why not ? I think such scripts are looked by users. > Whenever the subject of mp3->vorbis (or wma->vorbis, or any other lossy > codec to vorbis) transcoding comes up on the vorbis mailing list, the > reaction from the vorbis developers and the more knowledgeable vorbis > users is "don't do it". Aside from the effect on quality, the vorbis > developers are also concerned with the effect on vorbis's reputation of > the P2P sharing networks becoming flooded with crappy-sounding > mp3->vorbis transcoded files. Maybe, but I think lots of people will have to convert mp3 to vorbis if mp3 decoder dispear from Debian. mp32ogg is the way to help us. -- Julien Danjou .''`. Debian developer : :' : http://jdanjou.org `. `' http://people.debian.org/~acid `- GPG: 9A0D 5FD9 EB42 22F6 8974 C95C A462 B51E C2FE E5CD