Saturday, June 7, 2008

OggConvert by Tristan Brindle

OGGConvert is a great utility I found that converts almost any audio file or video file to the free OGG Theora/Vorbis format. The OGG format for audio has the same quality as MP3 but the size varies. Sometimes MP3s are smaller than OGGs but sometimes vice-versa. On the other hand, when I convert an XVID video to an OGG, the OGG is much smaller. I converted a 700MB XVID AVI to a 540MB OGG with quality to boot. I can't believe not many people know about this OGG format and since it's free, almost all Linux distributions including Ubuntu come with the codec pre-installed. I've attached a screenshot below.

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