[vorbis-dev] vorbis-utils features ;)

[Kenneth Arnold]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:48:50PM -0800, Monty wrote:
> 
> 
> > (*) 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
> :-)

Still shouldn't be needing 200 kbps to code this though; if it's below
the threshold of hearing it shouldn't matter whether it's random or
not; Vorbis should be throwing it out! Or is there a major mistake in
the psycoacoustic model?


-- 
Kenneth Arnold <ken at arnoldnet.net> / kcarnold / Linux user #180115
http://arnoldnet.net/~kcarnold/



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