[ale] questions for the media gurus

[Pete Hardie]

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 20:57, Narahari 'n' Savitha <savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
> Friends:
>
> I need to have some questions clarified.
>
> Audio questions
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>
> What is .ogg file, is that opensource equivalent of mp3 ?

Yes.

>
> Can iPod/iPhone play .ogg file ?

No.  Ogg is very poorly supported by hardware vendors.  I recall only
one brand (which I cannot remember the name) supporting it.

>
> Can iTunes/Windows Media Player play .ogg file ?
>
> Can Android phone play .ogg file ?
>
> Does .ogg file give good compression ?

I believe it's slightly better than MP3, but not massively better
>
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> Video:
>
>
> What is vorbis file, is that opensource equivalent of <what> ?

MP4 and/or MPEG video

>
> Can iPod/iPhone play .vorbis file ?
>
> Can iTunes/Windows Media Player play .vorbis file ?
>
> Can Android phone play .vorbis file ?
>
> Does .vorbis file give good compression ?
>
> Can Myth play vorbis files ?

Probably.  Linux support of vorbis is pretty good.

>
> ===========================================================
>
> I have videos that have come out of my dvr box(I played and recorded them).
>
> I need to remove the ad(s).  I want to note down mark-in and mark-out points
> in my Ulead Video Studio (it generates the .cue file if needed I guess)
>
> Can I provide the video file and the cue file to the ffmpeg program and make
> it trim and join the mark-in and mark-out points to produce video without
> encoding ?
>
> -Narahari
>
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