Hi John,<br><br>&nbsp; MP3 is a proprietary format.&nbsp; It is owned by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_SA" title="Thomson SA">Thomson Consumer Electronics</a>.&nbsp; This is why Mp3 players are not shipped with all distributions.&nbsp; Ogg Vorbis shows some promise but I do not know much about it.&nbsp; I know that the underlying math( differential equations, Fourier analysis, cosine transform, wavelet transform ) are considered general knowledge so the compression itself is not necessarily private property, just its implementation.&nbsp; From my trusted sources, MP3 or MPEG video offers little advantages over Ogg.&nbsp; Let me know of any problems you encounter with Ogg I will try to make an effort to help you out.&nbsp; I am interested in learning as much as I can.&nbsp; Only problem with Ogg that I see is the IPod( no support for Ogg ). jmz
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Wheat</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:wisdom04@cableaz.com">wisdom04@cableaz.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
&nbsp;&nbsp; I have noticed that MP3 support is rather limited with linux,<br>therefore, would Ogg be a suitable alternative considering I like to<br>burn CD's of mixed songs in my collection. The format used would need to<br>be easily converted to Wav so they can be burned to CDr's any
<br>suggestions on this?<br><br>Thank You,<br><br>John<br>---------------------------------------------------<br>PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us">PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
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