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    What Audio And/Or Video Formats Do You Use?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Thomas, Jul 27, 2010.

  1. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    My music library was all mp3 until recently, set it up to convert it all to ogg vorbis with some flac too last night....I have a large library, it took over 12 hours to complete :) I re-ripped some CDs too to flac, it's rather nice, and ogg has a much smaller file size with the same quality.
     
    Thomas, Jul 27, 2010
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  2. directeuphorium

    directeuphorium Notebook Evangelist

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    .mp3 or .flac mostly mp3 though

    and for video...

    .mkv (for anime or anything with multipule subs and diag options), .avi ,
     
    directeuphorium, Jul 27, 2010
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  3. 1ceBlu3

    1ceBlu3 Notebook Deity

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    as of right now..mostly mp3s. and i did convert some to ogg/aac to test sound quality...i have a large library as well :D
    for video avi..or mkv.
     
    1ceBlu3, Jul 28, 2010
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  4. jasperjones

    jasperjones Notebook Evangelist

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    Audio:

    On my desktop and laptop, probably 60% of my files are MP3 CBR 320kbps, 30% are FLAC, and the remaining 10% are AACs in MP4 container and lower bitrate MP3.

    On my smartphone, a combination of MP3, AAC, and OGG. FLACs are too large given scarce storage space, so I use Banshee to convert my FLACs to OGG on-the-fly when syncing my smartphone.

    I def don't have a single audio file I cannot play in Linux (I avoid junk such as WMA lossless).

    Video:

    Recently aquired/encoded stuff is mostly .mkv and .mp4. I still possess quite a bit of older stuff in a wide variety of containers and codecs.
     
    jasperjones, Jul 28, 2010
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  5. jasperjones

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    I hope you didn't transcode anything from mp3 to ogg. Everything can play mp3 just fine (and legality is not an issue; Linux users can obtain a 100% legal MP3 decoder from Fluendo).

    So really, all you get out of transcoding are slightly smaller files. But the significant downside is generation loss. Given the low cost of non-volatile storage, there's no doubt in my mind that such trancoding does more harm than good.
     
    jasperjones, Jul 28, 2010
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  6. silentivm

    silentivm Notebook Guru

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    Most of the stuff on my machine is MP3, but the newer ones are either OGG or FLAC. As for video, I have a variety of codecs here.
     
    silentivm, Jul 30, 2010
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  7. Thomas

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    Well I prefer to have it work out of the box with an open source standard.
     
    Thomas, Jul 30, 2010
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  8. jasperjones

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    fair enough. just saying
    will NOT hold when you transcode from mp3 to ogg. quality does deteriorate
     
    jasperjones, Jul 30, 2010
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  9. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Yeah, I know, broke out the CD collection too ;)
     
    Thomas, Jul 30, 2010
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    Audio: WMA Professional VBA, AAC HC, WMA lossess, MP3
    Video: H.264, flash
     
    jackluo923, Aug 1, 2010
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  11. jasperjones

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    May I ask how you get WMA lossless to play in Linux?

    My understanding w32codecs/w64codes isn't good enough :confused:
     
    jasperjones, Aug 1, 2010
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