[Vorbis-dev] Bounty for function to monitor an OGG-VORBIS stream

[xiphmont at xiph.org]

On 8/24/07, Paul Martin <pm at nowster.org.uk> wrote:

> IIRC, Vorbis does encode noise (as in hiss) separately from tones
> (fundamental, harmonics), so half the battle is won for you already.

No; vorbis does some implicit tonal estimation, but does not
explicitly seperately handle tones/noise.  This is a fundamental
limitation of the current generation of codecs we seek to improve in
Ghost.

The rest of the reply is dead on; I like the insights provided about FM.

Monty