[vorbis-dev] Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Sound & Vision codec comparison article

[Greg Maxwell]

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Mark Taylor wrote:

> MP3 and PAC are both MDCT/scalefactor type codecs.  Anyone know
> what the technology is in the microsoft codec?

>From what I've read the MS coder is just a poor rehash of the ISO refrence
MP3 encoder with the format munged and 'protection' added.. I'll see if I
can find documentation on that..

As for these tests, I'd take them with a grain or two of salt: Many of
their subjects had a hard time telling most pieces at 128Kb/s mp3 from the
orignal CD. This doesn't make any sence, as anyone with a somewhat decent
audio system should be able to hear thew 16K low pass, much less the other
distorition.

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