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You can encode to Theora video and Vorbis audio with FFmpeg if it has been compiled with --enable-libtheora and --enable-libvorbis. Depending on your ffmpeg version the default settings may not provide good enough quality. Therefore you must add some additional parameters to enable a constant quality type of mode for the video. The valid range to set video ...

Branding. Price. Policy on stifling competition. In all reality, a good cable shouldn't do anything between Point A and Point B. Any cable claims to that is either lying or doing something you don't want it to. I've found that the best cables I can get are the ones I make for myself at 1/10th the cost of the big brands. Even the lifetime warranty isn't ...

The warnings from WLPhoenix and Josh are absolutely correct: most cable connections do never have a significant influence on the sound, regardless of the cable brand. There is one important exception: guitar cables. Because most electric guitars have only primitive passive high-impedance electronics (the same applies to passive electric basses), supplied ...

Travis, you have, perhaps unwittingly, stumbled upon a question that has raged for quite some time. In short, there is no answer. Or more to the point, there is no agreed-upon answer. The Wikipedia entry on this is fairly concise for the tl;dr crowd... There is debate among audiophiles surrounding the impact that high-end cables have on audio ...

Well, you will lose quality - there is no way to gain it back from 128kbps files. A simple filter can roll off your high pitched 'jangles' but because they have elements across multiple frequencies you aren't going to get rid of them all. So give a low pass filter a try or use a treble reducer (similar effect in this type of scenario) and you might get a ...