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Posted by Wolfgang Schwanke on 01/09/07 13:57
"musicman" <stradlinizzy@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1168346068.758602.68300@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
> the AC-3 format is far superior to MP3
Sure it offers 5.1 channels as an option, which MP3 in its conventional
incarnation does not, and it offers some more options concerning bit
depths and sampling rates. Otherwhise it's quite comparable, namely a
lossy algorithm for audio. But you don't need so many channels for
plain stereo music (and you can't create them anyway with your
machine), and there's no point in using bit depths and sampling rates
differing from those of CD, if CD or LP are your sources.
MP3 is fine for plain audio, the actual quality depends on the choice
of encoder software and on the bandwidth setting you use. MP3 with 196
kBit/s using a good encoder is excellent and for all practical purposes
indistinguishable from the CD or the 44/16 stereo WAV you created from
your LP. If you're really paranoid you can encode at 256 or 320 kBit/s.
And if you detest MP3 fundamentally you can use a completely different
lossy format such as OGG. All of these options are preferrable to what
you're doing.
> a DVD+R holds 6 hours of music on the lowest resolution- no, there is
> no wasted disk space- you can look at the finished disk and see it has
> burned on it, for the entire diameter of the disk
Of course it appears physically full, that follows from the process
you're using. But most of that space contains the (blank) video image.
The audio just takes a small fraction of the disk.
> but the resolution can be turned up and you can fit 1 hour of music on
> a DVD+R of very high quality AC-3 music format
The audio resolution Panasonic DVD machines use for recording is fixed,
someone mentioned that already upthread. You're playing around with the
bandwidth used for the blank video image there, without changing
anything concerning the audio. Completely pointless.
On the other hand, MP3 and OGG encoders have lots of options that can
really affect audio quality. You can set the tradeoff between disk
usage and quality exactly to your liking. Not so with the DVD recorder.
> MP3's are crap- you may as well play a stereo soundtrack and cut one
> channel out, that's how much info is missing
Nonsense, see above.
Regards
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