[vorbis] Format comparison

[David Balazic]

Geoff Shang wrote :

> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: 
> > Other than that, the differences between Ogg and MP3 are mostly not 
> > "we can do this, they can't", but rather, "we can do it better", which 
> > is a much less compelling argument to the consumer in the face of an 
> > established standard. 
> 
> OK, you got me thinking now. Well OK Vorbis can do more than 2 channels. 

So can MPEG 2 layer II.

> This is not such a big deal now but it's likely to become so. One other 
> thing Vorbis has over MP3 is that you can have songs at different 
> bitrates/sampling rates in a stream and the player will just cope. Again, 
> something that will probably impact upon the consumer indirectly but ... 

MP3 can handle changing bitrate too ( it is called VBR :-)
I can probably also handle sampling rate changes, but I guess
most player don't support it.
 
> Anyone think of anything else? 
> 
> Geoff. 


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