[vorbis] quality

[fungus]

Erik Stenborg wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> I ran across another song that oggenc seems to have trouble to encode. The
> intro of U2:s "Grace" gets its right channel messed up by oggenc, even at
> the highest bitrate. Why is the bitrate only 218? Isn't that awfully
> little when asking for 320?
> 
> Qualityflaws like these is the reason i prefer mp3 and mpplus today. But
> vorbis is getting better for every beta, so keep up the good work! =)
> 
> If you want to listen to the files:
> http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d99papa/files/
> 

I encoded that file at the default bitrate (110 kbits/sec)
and it sounded perfect to me.

Are you sure you're using the latest encoder/decode?
I remember posting a similar message to yours and
when I upgraded all the problems vanished, red faces
all round.

nb. You have to get both the encoder *and* the decoder
right.

As for the bitrate, maybe 218 is enough to encode the
track perfectly with no loss. That track doesn't exactly
have a lot of high frequencies or harmonics in it. Ogg is
just saving you some disk space.... :-)


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