[vorbis-dev] intro to compressed audio tutorial

[Graham Mitchell]

> Hanging around #vorbis, I can tell you that a lot of people show up with
> misconceptions about compressed (especially lossy) audio.  An introduction
> to the area which uses Vorbis as the specific example would be a nice
> thing. Most people learned about lossy audio from MP3 and some have
> assigned attributes of MP3 to Vorbis incorrectly.  Such a document would
> also have some tutorial aspects as well.  If this interests you, I (and
> many others on the list) could suggest some topics for inclusion.

This strikes my fancy.

Rather than wait around for topics, I just wrote up a few pages since I had a 
free evening.  New topics are easily added, and if it's too long, it's always 
easier to cut than to fill.

http://cs.leander.isd.tenet.edu/~mitchell/vorbis_intro.html

Please provide corrections, feedback, suggestions for additions, flames, or 
whatever, either to the list or to me personally.


-- 
Graham Mitchell - computer science teacher, Leander High School
"If I had a nickname, I think I would want it to be 'Prince of Weasels,'
because then I could go up and bite people and they would turn around and
go, 'What the--?'  And then they would recognize me, and go, 'Oh, it's you,
the Prince of Weasels.'"
	-- Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts"

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