On 04/09/2012, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote:
>>> Greetings : >>> >>> I'm looking for a command line ogg to mp3 converter for osx. > >> I imagine that ffmpeg would be the best bet; it can do just about anything. > >> There's an example of converting an ogg file to mp3 with selective >> copy of some of the metadata in the ffmpeg man page. > >> The command line options are sometimes quite non-obvious. There >> are GUIs built on top of ffmpeg, such as the one at >> www.ffmpegX.com. I haven't looked at them in detail, to know >> whether any of them would (like AIX's smit does when providing a >> GUI or menu-driven way of performing administrative tasks) offer >> the option of showing the command-line equivalent for future use. >> And I don't know that any are in MacPorts. > Hi Richard : > I have received other recommendation for ffmpeg, so it is good to > hear your second and supporting opinion. > I will look into it. > FYI: I did find a perl utility call ogg2mp3. I believe you can > get it from http://gitorious.org/ogg2mp3/pages/Home, although I > was directed to a gentoo site for it. > It needs the ogg-vorbis port and it is extremely simple to work > with but doesn't seem like there is any direct control over where > the mp3 files are written. Although with a superior process > running it, that can be worked around. > > Thanks again for the tip on ffmpgeg. Of course all the comments about changing one lossy format to another. <bad results> You should try to convert a non-lossy to a lossy ie wav to mp3, wav to ogg etc James _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users