[vorbis] Format converters

fungus meditvr at teleline.es
Mon Aug 19 07:06:01 PDT 2002



Moritz Grimm wrote:
>  
> IF you can't get around re-encoding (it is not possible to "translate"
> the audio files from one format (e.g. Vorbis) to another (MP3) without
> loss), reencode as few times as possible. This applies to *all* lossy
> codecs - none that I know of can be transcoded into each other (when I
> say "transcode" i mean the lossless translation from one format into the
> other ... others use it for "re-encoding", so there might be some
> confusion).
> 

On a totally unconnected note....is it not possible
to convert from mp3 to vorbis without leaving the
frequency domain? That would imply much less loss
then converting mp3->wav->ogg.

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