[vorbis] RE: [advanced] Response to Ogg Vorbis comments

[Rik Hemsley]

#if Amir Majidimehr

> This statement does NOT apply to WMA codec since WMA only supports CBR
> encoding (we provide VBR for *video* only).  Take *any* signal and feed
> it into WMA and you will see that it creates the same output file size.
> Try forcing your codec to do this and you will see a noticeable drop in
> quality with any non-trivial content.  We and others have done numerous
> studies in this area.  This is not just conjecture.  VBR gives
> You can not marginalize the advantage of VBR (better quality) or
> its disadvantage (can not stream on fixed-rate channels or control 
> the output file size).

Er, _can_ stream on fixed-rate channels. You just use less of the 
bandwidth when you don't need it all.

Why would you want to control the output file size, except to know the 
maximum size that it would be ? Ok, you might want to have an extremely 
accurate progress meter for the user downloading a file which is being 
produced on-the-fly, but I think they'll live with a couple of percent 
either way, no ?

Rik

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