[vorbis] Goof on webpage

Gregory Maxwell greg at linuxpower.cx
Tue Aug 21 06:15:06 PDT 2001



On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:08:40PM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> That paragraph has been there since the beta1 release.  It has been wrong
> for a long time.  Yes, it can go higher than 128kbps/channel.  It can also
> do other sampling rates than 44.1 and 48, but it cannot yet do 44.1 at
> 16kbps/channel.  I'd like to see such a rate achieved, but I'm not holding
> my breath right now.

There is a difference between design and implimentation.
Yes, Vorbis can do 300kbit/sec/channel, but it would not be the most
efficent coder available at the bitrate and it was designed to operate at
16kbit/sec but it currently doesn't do a good job of that.

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