A-ha. (Was Re: [vorbis-dev] -b flag at low sample rates?)

[Jack Moffitt]

> My real question goes along these lines:  We're trying to compress 11K mono 
> files as much as possible.  An mp3 encoder seems to do about %25-50 better 
> than ogg.  Is there any better I can do than simply running with 
> -q0?  (Since there's no managed bitrate stuff below 44K in r3, it seems 
> like I'm as low as I can go right now, other than downsampling further, 
> which would degrade the audio quality below the threshhold of acceptibility 
> for this application.)

You can leave your files at 44.1kHz, lowpass them to 11kHz and then use
bitrate management.  You should get roughly the same effect.  

Other than that and -q0, there's not much until rc4.

jack.

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