[vorbis-dev] vorbis-utils features ;)

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Wed Mar 14 20:48:50 PST 2001



> (*) At silent areas in a song (extracted digitally with cdparanoia) the 
> bitrate holds around 200 kps (-b 192).. That seems like a waste of bits to me 

Then it's not actually digital silence, most likely.  Very very low
amplitude hiss (and even the best microphones have this) is difficult
to model in a transform encoder precisely.  There *is* signal
there... and hard to encode signal at that, because it's truly random
:-)

Monty

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