[vorbis] This works: low bitrate encoding

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:36:11PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:40:59PM -0800, Monty wrote:
> 
> > Confusingly, the beta 3 documentation claims oggenc requires 44.1kHz
> > input, but that's not the case.  Oggenc *will* accept other sample
> > rates (and the documentation is corrected in CVS)
> 
> What's the trick to make it play back at the right speed though?  I
> have an 8kHz 8-bit RIFF that I'd like to encode, but I can't get it to
> work right. :-(

First, convert it to 16 bit. Because of the way vorbis works, reducing
bitage will not decrease bitrate (all it does is lower S/N ratio and perhaps
raise bitrate), and I don't think the tools support 8bit input. It should be
okay after that.

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