[vorbis] Format converters

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Sat Sep 14 12:01:47 PDT 2002



On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:06:01PM -0100, fungus wrote:
> 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.

It is not possible.  The blocksizes are incompatible.

Monty
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