[vorbis] Encoding speed reports (was: Choosing a processor)

[Karol Pietrzak]

On 3 Jun 2001, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:

> Does the target bitrate (encoder mode) affect the speed?

i'm pretty sure it does: the higher the bitrate, the longer the 
encoding time (just like mp3).  this has always confused me.  
since very high bitrate mp3s / ogg files have very little 
compression (i.e. they are _very_ near to the original), why do 
they take the longest to encode?  shouldn't the low bitrates 
take the most time because they have are more stripped down?

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