Just some questions I had.

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 29 January 2005 21:03, Kyle Lagonegro (Student-Lagone37) 
wrote:
>First off with these other disks, CD 3 and 4, I've commented on them
> and got a few responses, but I'm just curious as of what they are,
> and how do I use yum (or whatever I'm suppose to use) to put these
> programs on my computer.
>
>Another thing I've been reading about OGG files instead of using
> MP3's.  I have a bunch of CDs and I had them all on my computer, so
> when I decided to switch, instead of going through all the albums
> again, I made MP3 CDs, they take up less space and I could fit more
> CDs on one MP3 disk.  But since nothing on here supports MP3 (As of
> now) can I somehow easily convert the files to OGG and play them? 
> Or is there something I need to download or what?
>
Cross converting from MP3 to OGG is, sonicly, a disaster.  Each 
compression throws away a different part of the sound, and when you 
effectively run it through both compressors, the results are at best, 
muddy and tiresome to listen to.

To these ears, ogg is the superior sonicly.  You would be far better 
off to re-rip your collection and make new ogg format cd's from it.

The command line options I use for this in Grip are:
-o %m -a %a -l %d -t %n -N %t -G %G -d %y -q7 %w
and I cannot tell the result from the original cd.

>Thirdly, friends of mine constantly send me links to stupid movies,
> things like "Worst Weather Man Ever" or maybe a trailor to a new
> movie.  But when I download them they don't seem to play correctly,
> I've noted three kinds that don't work as of now.  WMV (Which was
> obvious), MPG and AVI files all won't play, as of now I think Helix
> is the only video playing program I have, but again I don't know
> what is on those other disk.  Let me know if you guys come up with
> anything, I'm working tonight, but until them I'll be on AIM
> (OffedByAchilleus) and surfing the net trying to find answers to
> these problems.  Thank you so much.

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