[vorbis] Questions about bitrates

[Wilson]

Ogg Vorbis is not a lossless format.

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From: "Hongli Lai" <hongli at telekabel.nl>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: [vorbis] Questions about bitrates

> If I understand correctly, Ogg Vorbis is a lossless format. But then why
> does it support bitrates?
> Ogg Vorbis does not delete any information. When I encode a 128 kbit MP3
> file to 32 kbit OggVorbis,
> the resulting file has a bitrate of about 110 kbit.
> And when I encode it to 320 kbit, the file will be bigger, but the quality
> won't improve because
> of the quality of the original.
> So what purpose does bitrates in Ogg Vorbis have?
>
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