[vorbis-dev] comparisons

[Nelson Rush]

I converted the 128kbps tom.mp3 file into a .wav and then used oggenc -m 2
to
laterally encode it to 128kbps tommy.ogg format. I noticed that it gets very
close to the size of an mp3, great job guys. Then I got to thinking that
maybe it could be compressed further with gzip so I tried it. I also gzipped
the mp3 to compare and it looks like the mp3 gzips better but gzipping the
ogg file will get the size a bit smaller than an ungzipped mp3. I'm not sure
if it's really worth the decompression overhead, although gzip is pretty
fast even though I used -9.

Sorry if I'm a bit naive about compression. ;-)

-rw-r--r--   1 palisade users          4007318 Aug 22 16:31 tommy.ogg
-rw-r--r--   1 palisade users          3989911 Aug 22 16:57 tommy.ogg.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 palisade users          3991638 Aug 22 16:41 tom.mp3
-rw-r--r--   1 palisade users          3959108 Aug 22 16:48 tom.mp3.gz

Sincerely,
Nelson Rush

"<Operandi> well flog me like a misbehaving circus clown"

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