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> This patch changes the settings associated with compression
> levels 6, 7 and 8. With this patch, -e is no longer used, but
> instead apodization functions are added. This should improve
> compression with at least 95% of all material. Independent tests
> show that this is probably the case.

As it turns out, the material for which the compression didn't 
improve is mostly 'quiet' material.

> Just wondering, the 1.2.1 was similar to 1.3 or better/worse ?

The compression did not change at all, none of the patches 
touched that part of the encoder.