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Nah! I'd use it. I'd store all my music in RAW format since space is no longer an issue! Right now I use a modified OGG engine (GT3B2) that is near lossless which works for now (MP3 sucks - can't stand the artifacts it places in music). Actually - I'd probably use exclusesevely FLAC as an engine then because it 'is' lossless - not a single bit of audio data is lost in the compression.
I'd also start storing movies in RAW format since compression wouldn't be an issue. 80 GB an hour is about what an uncompressed movie works out to last time I did it. I actually ended up using huffyuv lossless compressor becasue it was just getting too big. This cut it down by about half.
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For OGG? GT3B2 - This mod removes the limitations on bitrate, so even though you would average 212 kbps on a song (using q6 under GT3B2 - which also makes OGG use independant stereo chan), you can peak at 600 or 700 kbps for a ms or two to keep the quality of the song if the song needs it. As you might as guessed - ugly sounding artifacts do not exist under this mod as found in MP3.
I did a test vs CD on this and you can't hear the diff. Only thing I could detect easily is the db loss caused by the sound card. As for sound qual - its perfect - or as near as you can get for a compression. Next step up is FLAC from here.
One more thing - if you are looking for a target bitrate under 212 kbps (Ususally averages 190 kbps even at q6 with GT3B2), say like 160 or below - GT3B2 is a little out of date for that area of smaller file sizes and you might be better off using something else. If you don't mind better sounding q levels (q5 or q6 for example) which make slightly larger files, than it is a good choice.
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PS. Are you talking the vid front? I used Virtual dub to do most of my dirty work, with hand edited filters to remove interlacing, etc. The list of things I use here are a mile long, so I don't know what detail you are looking for here.