[vorbis] bitrtate peeling and lossless compression

[ndrw mchl grnbrg]

Nathan Johnson <johnsonn at agcs.com> wrote:
: So, neither Vorbis nor Squish can encode losslessly and peel the bit-rate back
: to lossy encoding.
: Would it be practical to make an encoding scheme that would be capable of this?

Well, considering that lossless encoding needs to use completely different
methods of compression than lossy encoding uses, the compressed file would
almost *have* to be the size of the lossless encoded file + the lossy
encoded file together, which would probably be as large as the original
pcm file if not larger.


-- 
 andrew michael greenburg            !            a m g @ b e w l e y . n e t
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

--- >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.