Well, now, life is too short to convert 11,000 audio files from .mp3 to .oga. Incidentally, these are all thoroughly non commercial, none of them are from mainstream labels.
As to the videos, I think now that it was a waste of time converting them from .flv to .mp4. No conversion of anything to anything else will ever do anything but reduce the quality, that's basic cybernetics, or something, isn't it. They aren't important to me anyway. I do have some serious films which I obtained in .mov format, and again I should have left them in that format, for the same reason. I think I shall re-obtain them in their original .mov format and this time leave them that way. On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:13 +0000, Harry Rickards wrote: > Quoting Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com>: > > > I have an awful lot of short music videos (non-interactive), I mean > > scores and scores of them, which I downloaded from YouTube in flash > > format and converted to .mp4 format. I felt that this would be a more > > versatile format for video jukebox type use on unknown machines in the > > future (like my eleven thousand plus .mp3 music files, I keep them on an > > external hard drive) -- but I could have been completely wrong. > > > > > I may just be being picky, but have you thought about converting your > videos to .ogv (Ogg Video) and your music to .oga (Ogg Audio), as > although it may be easier to play .mp4 and .mp3 on Windows, you can > use free software such as VLC to play Ogg on Windows, and Ogg should > play out of the box on most Linux distro's. Also, it seems that Ubuntu > and a lot of other distro's don't come with out of the box support for > .mp4. > > Harry > -- > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
