Isn't the video encoded into mpeg by hardware anyway? Tom On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:42, Marc Leeman wrote: > I am currently trying to work myself into linux video captering > software, and trying to package it for debian. > As you may or may not be aware, debian has a number of rules considering > the possibility for inclusion of the software into the distribution > (putting it very simple, non-free software is hard to get into debian). > > As a result of a discussion I had with a couple of debian-developers on > the possible problem of the use of liblame in the software, I was > wondering: > > What if the audio was to be encoded with ogg/vorbis instead of mp3. I > guess that feasable to do so, but would players be able to decode this? > I would want to know this before I start digging into the code. > > Ideally, I would see the following combination for OS/FS enthousiasts > (while waiting for the vorbis video compression): > xvid/ogg