[vorbis] Format converters

[Moritz Grimm]

fungus 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.

Since I neither understand MP3 nor Vorbis anywhere near good enough to
answer this, I think this has been discussed earlier already, with the
conclusion that Vorbis and MP3 are simply too different to do that. I
might be wrong, though.

<p>Moritz
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