[vorbis] reencoding OGG Vorbis

Moritz Grimm maxx at kolabore.de
Wed Feb 21 00:00:47 PST 2001



> >As I heard, and I am pretty sure that it's true, MP3 files can be
> >decoded and reencoded unlimited times without further quality loss (of
> >course the same encoder with the same preferences has to be used all the
> >time). Is this also possible with .OGG?
> Nope, this definately isn't possible with vorbis. It ALSO isn't possible with mp3, though.

Hmm ... the guy I had this from made some research on MP3 for a small
lecture. I will ask him where he got this information from and meanwhile
I will regard recoding as "impossible". :) Thanks for the info to all!

Moritz

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