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Posted by Gary on 01/10/07 01:56
"Wolfgang Schwanke" <see@sig.nature> wrote in message
news:uv60oe.8n.ln@wschwanke.de...
> "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
>
> --
> She's made you some kind of laughing stock
> Because you dance to disco and you don't like rock
>
> http://www.wschwanke.de/ usenet_20031215 (AT) wschwanke (DOT) de
This music man chap is just either really dense or a troll.
I give up as it is now obvious he is just not really aware of what he is
saying.
Gary
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