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Are direct bit-rate converters possible for Ogg Vorbis? Or do they already exist? Even more, is it possible to directly convert MP3/ATRAC3 (i.e., Sony Minidisc) encoding to and from Ogg Vorbis? There has been an earlier discussion on this question. But this discussion centered around the fact that people couldn't see the point, and were rather hostile to the idea. There is a very good reason to want this. I can best illustrate t...

http://mp3licensing.com/other/index.html They list: Atrac 3, (E)Pac, AAC ..and various patents of theirs they believe that these formats rely on.. then basically say: "We have not yet determined our licensing policy for this format" Vorbis is not mentioned.. Regards, Tom --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage:

I am very happy to announce that the aoTuV tuning of Ogg Vorbis has tied with Musepack at first place in the 128 kbps listening test. It has beat iTunes AAC, Lame MP3, ATRAC3, and WMA standard. :) http://www.rjamorim.com/test/multiformat128/results.html -- ------------------------------------------------- Stephen So PhD Student Signal Processing Laboratory School of Microelectronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Nathan Campus Griffith...

...9;s faster to encode than, and gives just about the same quality as, DivX 4. You'll need NanDub to encode it. http://www.nandub.org There's a usage guide at http://doom9.net For audio, i usually use VBR MP3 encoded with LAME, and multiplexed into the AVI using NanDub. I sometimes use a Sony ATRAC3 ACM codec, though not lately. I'm still holding off on using the vorbis acm codec, as it weirds me out a bit for the aforementioned reasons, doesn't support the lower bitrate modes of RC2, and seems to have trouble playing back audio encoded with external encoders (e.g. OggDrop) and multipl...