[vorbis-dev] One codebook for all audiofiles?

Marshall Eubanks tme at 21rst-century.com
Wed May 30 07:10:03 PDT 2001



Aleksandar Dovnikovic wrote:

> "Marshall Eubanks" <tme at 21rst-century.com> wrote:
>
> > Aleksandar Dovnikovic wrote:
> > > Yes, sadly they only *reach* 2:1 compression ratio. With most
> > > metal music things are very bad: 1.3:1 - 1.5:1 is what you
> > > can hope to get - almost pointless.
> >
> > If your archives contain many 100's of gigabytes of uncompressed audio
> > files (as ours do) a 25% reduction in storage space used seems
> > pretty attactive.
>
> OK, I could say that this kind of reduction is noticeable, but when you
> look at how much compression you can get with lossy compression
> (or even some lossless/lossy hybrid that Monkey Audio is working on),
> then it doesn't look to me that there is much use...
>
> ---
> Aleksandar @ Vorbis Xtreme | http://solair.eunet.yu/~aldov
> Ogg Vorbis is the free, open source alternative to MP3
>

Just that, as codec improve, we could re-encode
as desired with a script.


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