On 06/28/2008 08:28 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Why do you convert in the first place? Re-encoding files with a lossy codec can only degrade their quality, no matter what bitrate you are using.
I know that re-encoding degrades the quality. But my eyes don't see the difference :-) I already described in other posting that I am not a fanboy of Adobe's proprietary products, pricing policy, etc
AFAIK the only "real open source format" is Ogg Theora. Which codec yields the best quality depends a little bit on the bitrate you are using. H.264 is generally a good choice, though. You can use ffmpeg (from debian-multimedia.org) for this, too.
How accepted is Ogg Theora in Non-Geek environments? Are the most desktop and devics (Game Consoles, DVR, etc) users by default able to play Ogg Theora? cheers Simon
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