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

I should have kept on googling...
http://www.olswang.com/music/hooks.html
"MP3, or to give it its full name MPEG1 Level 3 audio, is an audio
compression standard."

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> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> To: NOLUG ML <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Off-topic from off-topic -- that is, back on-topic
> Date: 16 Dec 2002 13:04:01 -0600
>
> 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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