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/> Additionally, it has been stated many times that you / /> _should_ _never_ _transcode_ _any_ _lossy_ _codec_. / This isn't transcoding. The point about transcoding, say, MP3->OGG is that the two codecs use different assumptions (psychoacoustic models, etc.) in performing the compression -- so transcoding often results in one codec trying to chase down and reproduce artifacts generated by the other...

Hi! I would like to share with you an interesting test result. I re-encoded a song 10 times (the 2. made from the 1., the 3. made from the 2.,... the 10. made from the 9.), with a beta4 (CVS 20010620) and with an RC2 (CVS 20010817) library version, 256 kbit/s mode, channel coupling disabled at RC2. The beta4 is very good at the 10. encoding too, but the RC2 has some interesting quality bugs. So,

...rst glance: a) accesses files on my hard drive, b) accesses my SCSI devices, c) accesses my IDE devices, d) possibly accesses other devices via ioctl() calls, e) contains encryption code, f) possibly transmits sensitive information outside of my network. I have purchased a _codec_, which means encoding and decoding software. I did not expect any other functionality. I do not have the habit of running this sort of unknown "black-box" code on my machines. I'm not even mentioning the fact that the whole licensing is rather limited -- you can't move the licens...