[MPlayer-users] How to encode an ogg with mplayer?

[Ivan Kowalenko]

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On Jul 18, 2006, at 11.31, Nico Sabbi wrote:

> Val wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 16:53 +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
>>
>>> do yourself and the mankind a favor and forget everything about  
>>> that abomination that is ogg.
>>>
>> I haven't heard anything so bad about ogg. Would you please  
>> elaborate?
>> P.S. I am not trying to start a flame - if there is something bad  
>> about ogg, I really want to know.
>>
> ogg doesn't permit to do anything with its content unless you know  
> perfectly the format of the streams therein; it doesn't include any  
> of the basic informations that a container should provide to permit  
> access to its content and in certain places it reinvents the wheel  
> for no reason (other than for establishing unprecedented levels of  
> idiocy (e.g. lacing)).

For the record, I think the guy is actually talking about Vorbis, the  
codec, and not OGG, the container.

>  Whoever invented it deserves an ignobel prize for technology

That would be Xiph, I think.
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