Re: [Nolug] Off-topic from off-topic -- that is, back on-topic

Actually, I think that mp3 files are really MPEG 1 Level 3 files.

http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/mpeg-faq/part5.html
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/pc_int/mp3faq/#what

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 06:40, Scott Harney wrote:
> mpeg3=mp3 so that's music only. mpeg video though is probably your best bet
> for a universal format. But it's the least compressed. Anyone one know if
> you can stream divx -- I'm not really up to date these days on streaming
> video formats. Used to be you had a choice of windows media, Quicktime, or
> Real. The latter may be a good choice soon should they opensource it as they
> have said they might
>
> On Monday 16 December 2002 00:35, Dave Prentice wrote:
> > Manuel,
> > I hate to disrupt the discussion about cable/DSL to ask an actual
> > Linux question, but here goes: I see you are interested in streaming
> > stuff. For video, what's the best overall format to have on a web
> > server so most anybody can download/stream it? mpeg2, mpeg3, or what?
> > I have some educational videotapes a friend says he can convert for
> > me, but needs to know what format to put them into.
> > Thanks,
> > Dave Prentice
> > prentice@instruction.com
> >
> >
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