[vorbis-dev] vorbis-utils features ;)

[Segher Boessenkool]

Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:54:07PM +0200, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> > Talked to Monty. Found out I was wrong: Vorbis already has a time-dampened
> > peak value... I thought I was being clever, but Monty of course, he was
> > already cleaver first. :)

Hehe... yeah, Monty is cleaver. And sharp, as well ;-)

> It's the documentation problem.  If the docs were up-to-date, everybody
> would know how smart and powerfull vorbis really is but now they can only
> guess/deduce it from the high quality they experience :)

This is an implementation detail of the psy model. All implementation
details are already completely documented; the documentation is called
"libvorbis".

There could be made a high-level overview of the psy model, but I don't
think it will gain anyone much. If there's enough demand, one will
eventually be made, I guess.

> BTW, how symetric is Vorbis with respect to time?  If I get some time i'll

Not very.

> experiment with encoding a wave reversed in time (and reversing the
> decoding of course so that I can understand something) - will this give
> quality close to normal?  Should it?

It should not.

Ciao,

Segher

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