2009/6/8 Peter Gervai grin@grin.hu:
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 17:26, David Gerarddgerard@gmail.com wrote:
It would be a simple matter of programming to have something that allows upload of encumbered video and audio formats and re-encode them as Ogg Theora or Ogg Vorbis.
As a technical sidenote, it should be mentioned that recoding a lossy format to another lossy format results _always_ a worse quality output than the source lossy format. The amount of quality loss depends on countless factors and usually do not render the result useless, but the quality difference may be still audible/visible.
Well, yeah. But until cameras or phones start recording Ogg Theora natively, we're likely stuck with this.
- d.