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

[Nathan I. Sharfi]

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Monty wrote:

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> 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

also consider only doing a long-option; reduced ease of use would be another
subtle hint ;)

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