[vorbis] joint stereo implementation

[Brendan Cully]

On Friday, 15 June 2001 at 14:22, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
> 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)?

I very much hope it does the latter. The former would be very
confusing.

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