[vorbis] OGG IS BEST, BUT UNUSABLE! (very important)]

[Monty]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:23:48PM +0100, Aleksandar Dovnikovic wrote:
> "Geoff Shang" <gshang at uq.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > True.  And anyway, the VBR stuff in beta4 apparently does a better job at
> > allocating bit rates than did beta3.
> 
> It does on almost all test samples I have, except for the samples that
> have lot of (potential) pre-echo events (like castanets.wav and a few
> other that I have) - it seems that the VBR in pre-beta4 gives less
> bits then beta3 for these events, so pre-echo is more noticeable in
> beta4 (in comparison to beta3).

I'm checking out what you've found.  Beta 4 does limit bit allocation
in short blocks more aggressively than beta 3 did, but the preecho
triggering should be the same. 

Monty

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