[vorbis] what quality ?

[Andy Dale]

-q4.99 is lossy channel coupling.  -q5 is lossless channel coupling.  i
forget what exactly this means but i do know it means a jump in bitrate and
filesize.

Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "gabor" <gabor at realtime.sk>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] what quality ?

<p>: On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 10:14, MARK JAMES HETHERINGTON wrote:
: > Try some different quality settings and see for yourself. If you can
: > put up with 128k mp3 (YUCK!) then you'll probably be fine with "-q 0" or
: > "-q 1". Personally I'm very happy with "-q 4.99" just below the
: > lossless encoding threshold.
: what's the lossless encoding threshold?
:
:
:
: > ----- Original Message -----
: > From: gabor <gabor at realtime.sk>
: > Date: Thursday, April 18, 2002 6:11 am
: > Subject: [vorbis] what quality ?
: >
: > > hi,
: > >
: > > what quality is recommended to encode to for cd quality?
: > >
: > > i mean, for mp3, i used to encode to 128kb/s ( maybe it's a bit low..
: > > )..
: > > so what quality  ( or bitrate ) do you recommend?
: > >
: > > thanks,
: > > gabor
: > >
: > > p.s: i'm sure this queston was asked here at least 1000x but it's hard
: > > to search for 'bitrate' here :-)
: > >
: > >
: > >
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