pho: [Fwd: [vorbis] new MS codecs]

[Monty]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:44:40PM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Monty wrote:
> 
> > > Check it out (the url is probably wrapped):
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/compare/quality.asp
> >
> > For those of us without a windows machine, could someone hand me a
> > .wav decompression of the windows media samples?  Yeah, yeah, I know
> > the license says don't do it.  Be sneaky.
> 
> Did anyone ever do this?  If not, I'd be happy to put them up somewhere.

Jack did it, yep.

> joint.  I heard a stereo stream at 20 point something kbps which sounded
> like 22khz.  This stream was a stereo recording of a classical piano piece.
> The result was a rather toppy centre that sounded like it was across the
> room a little, and sides that were rolled off at, as I say, around 500 hz.
> There was some swurling, phasing oddities and some pre-echo problems.

Well, at 20-something kbps, you do have to give them *some* credit ;-)
Even if they picked something easy.

Monty

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