[Speex-dev] Quality vs. Bitrate vs. Complexity

[Jean-Marc Valin]

Quality and bit-rate are different ways of specifying exactly the same 
thing. Complexity is orthogonal.

	Jean-Marc

On 2010-04-03 08:28, Randy Yates wrote:
> Jean-Marc: I know you're seeing these - how about a response?
>
> --Randy
>
> Randy Yates<yates at ieee.org>  writes:
>
>> If I understand these terms correctly, you cannot specify simultaneously
>> all three, e.g., high quality, low bitrate, and low complexity.
>>
>> It seems that specifying any two implies the third.  For example,
>> specifying a high quality and low bitrate will necessarily require a
>> high complexity.
>>
>> Am I correct? If not, can someone please explain how these parameters
>> interact?
>