[GMG-Devel] Bash Scripts To Copy/Transfer Metadata Of Audio & Video Files

[Alexander Ross]

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69948
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70882

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Decent, recommended by me, non-proprietary, patent free, royalty free, FOSS archive formats:

• XZ http://tukaani.org/xz/format.html
• TAR.GZ (If you must.)
• PEA http://www.peazip.org/pea-archiving-utility.html

A multi platform archiver progam:

http://www.peazip.org/

A comparison of formats:

http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks.html

http://www.peazip.org/peazip-compression-benchmark.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers

mp3,acc,wma,rma,ect audio formats are all rubbish!

Decent audio formats:

• Vorbis (lossy) http://www.vorbis.com/
• FLAC (lossless) http://flac.sourceforge.net/
• Speex (for voice, lossy) http://www.speex.org/

For multimedia containers, I like/love:

MKV http://www.matroska.org/

WebM http://www.webmproject.org/

OGG http://www.xiph.org/ogg/

FLAC (Audio only. Use with the FLAC audio format.)

Good Video formats:

• VP8 http://www.webmproject.org/ or H.264
• Theora http://www.theora.org/ or VC-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-1
• No mpeg4/divx/xvid please! If you can help it. Take you time with encoding. I don't mined 12hour long ones! Aim for best quality.
  

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