[Vorbis-dev] Vorbis-/Speex-Audio for Movie-Archiving

[Paul Martin]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:48:24PM +0200, Hannes Hauswedell wrote:
> II) Multi-language
> 
> I usually archive both the audio stream in original language and in my
> native language, but I always thought that a lot of space is wasted there,
> especially when going multi-channel for one or both languages. Wouldn't it
> be possible to:
> * encode the audio stream minus the speech in vorbis 
> * encode each language as speex
> => save a lot of space because 1*vorb+X*spx << X*vorb

If you were able to obtain the M&E (Music and Effects) version of the
soundtrack, with separate dialogue tracks, this would be feasible.

Consumer DVDs/BRs don't give you this option, though.

-- 
Paul Martin <pm at nowster.org.uk>