[vorbis] Another new famous game using VORBIS!!!

[Sean Neakums]

commence  Martin Blackwell quotation:

>> I've never gotten performance even close to that. Are you sure you weren't
>> dreaming? (or maybe you mentally moved the decimal point one place)
>> Standard file compression can rarely knock more than 5% off of a 44.1kHz
>> PCM file of any type. A lossless audio codec like FLAC can do a little bit
>> better, maybe 30-40% compression, but then you're still looking at at
>> least 800kbps.
>
> it was probably a higher bitrate mp3 comparrision, but i swear i
> wasnt dreaming (i get really bored sometimes & just mess around with
> stuff).
>
> I know it was either winzip i was using, and it wad definetly
> Maximum (slowest) compression i was using.
>
> If i'm wrong i probably did mentally move the decimal point one
> place, but i dont think i am

Being moderately bored, I ripped the Peter Gabriel album 'Up' and
tried gzip on it:

$ for i in $(seq 10) ; do gzip -v -9 < $i.wav > $i.wav.gz ; done
 10.7%
  5.5%
  5.8%
  5.5%
  4.7%
  4.9%
  9.2%
  7.1%
  8.3%
 13.4%
$ ls -l
total 1332876
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 72662732 Dec  8 15:52 1.wav
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 64884837 Dec  8 21:32 1.wav.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 32008412 Dec  8 16:08 10.wav
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 27731052 Dec  8 21:35 10.wav.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 79975100 Dec  8 15:54 2.wav
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 75601736 Dec  8 21:32 2.wav.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 70186076 Dec  8 15:56 3.wav
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 66130036 Dec  8 21:33 3.wav.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 83554844 Dec  8 15:58 4.wav
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 78917734 Dec  8 21:33 4.wav.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 78429836 Dec  8 16:00 5.wav
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 74714098 Dec  8 21:34 5.wav.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 76910444 Dec  8 16:02 6.wav
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 73117609 Dec  8 21:34 6.wav.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 68638460 Dec  8 16:04 7.wav
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 62317783 Dec  8 21:34 7.wav.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 63861548 Dec  8 16:05 8.wav
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 59331059 Dec  8 21:35 8.wav.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 80527820 Dec  8 16:07 9.wav
-rw-r--r--    1 sneakums sneakums 73860083 Dec  8 21:35 9.wav.gz

I think you're wrong.


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[|] Sean Neakums            |  Questions are a burden to others;
[|] <sneakums at zork.net>     |      answers a prison for oneself.
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