Encoding to either ogg or mp3 is lossy, but when converting back to wav the information in the mp3 or ogg audio should be retained completely. James is right when reminding me that going from ogg to mp3 incurs two opportunities of loss though, one from wav to ogg, and then another from ogg to mp3. Hence, when I converted ogg to mp3, I set the mp3 encoder to nearly cd audio quality to reduce that second loss. It still sounded crisp when played back. jack
--- James Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:22:03AM -0800, Craig Dickson > wrote: > > Jack Pistachio wrote: > > > > > Well, I'm actually not sure I need to. I'm making a > cd for > > > my brother to use on his mp3 capable DVD player. I > assumed > > > that the player wouldn't be able to handle ogg > encoded > > > files. Perhaps I'm wrong? > > > > Most likely you're right. However, one thing you should > be aware of is > > that transcoding between different lossy encoders (both > mp3 and vorbis > > are lossy) tends to produce poor results. Lossy > compression always > > introduces some artifacts in the signal, and lossy > encoders are not > > designed to deal with artifacts introduced by another > encoder. Because > > of this, an mp3 file translated from vorbis, or a > vorbis file translated > > from mp3, will sound noticeably worse than if it had > been encoded from > > the original uncompressed source. This sort of > transcoding is generally > > not adviseable, though the result can be tolerable if > you expect to be > > listening to it in a situation where audio quality is > poor anyway (such > > as on a cheap stereo, or in a car, or on a walkman). > > Since you're talking about audio degradation issues, one > thing I've > always wondered is how much and what kind of loss is > there (if any) > when unencoding from [.ogg]|[.mp3] to .wav? > > -- > James Hughes > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
