[vorbis-dev] Re: Major quality decrease in RC3 compared to RC2

[Monty]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:14:49PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> Jack Moffitt <jack at xiph.org> writes:
> 
> > > Bitrate management has changed in RC3.  Please repeat your test with a quality
> > > setting rather than a bitrate setting.  You will get what you were expecting
> > > with:
> > 
> > We're going to have to do an updated release of vorbis-tools deprecating
> > -b.  Otherwise everyone is going to be upset.
> 
> Perhaps -b should control the quality settings with values like 64, 128. And
> you should use a new option for bitrate management instead of -b.

As we're deprecating -b, mapping it to a -q and putting a big WARNING
message isn't a bad idea.

Monty

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