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). Craig
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