[vorbis] joint stereo implementation

[Karol Pietrzak]

On 14 Jun 2001, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

> A good joint stereo algorithm can throw away about 40% of the bits,
> on "average" music streams.  So 128kbps -> 80kbps, 96kbps -> 64kbps.

Out of curiousity, how will the encoder handle this?  I mean, if 
"-b 128" is specified to oggenc, will it lower bitrate hover 
around ~80kbps (same quality as current encoder) or will it 
hover around ~128kbps (with "40% better quality", so to speak)?

--
noodlez:   Karol Pietrzak
GPG/PGP-KeyID: 0x3A1446A0

--- >8 ----
List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request at xiph.org'
containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.