[...] a few days ago Red Hat Legal provided the permission to ship MP3 encoding in Fedora. [...] it will soon be possible to convert physical media or other formats to MP3 in Fedora without 3rd party repositories.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday May 09 2017, @04:33AM (1 child)
... and the new codecs are far superior. HEVC/H.265 reduces bit rates by 30-50% at the same level of quality, compared to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC.
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday May 09 2017, @05:31AM
Yeah, and x264/MPEG-4 itself reduces bitrates a huge amount over the ancient MPEG-2 that DVDs use, probably quite a bit more than the x264-to-x265 improvement.