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

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, 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.

This would be misleading because on certain difficult songs, the bitrate goes
up.  We really just need to train people to think in terms of "quality" (an
inherently fuzzy term, I know) rather than "bitrate", because that's usually
what they care about.  They've just been taught to measure quality on a
bitrate scale.  With some practice, they'll learn how to measure quality on
the Vorbis scale.

[It's sort of like the confusion between "performance" and "clock rate" that
processor manufacturers (well, except Intel) constantly try to fight.]


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Stan Seibert

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