[vorbis] intro to compressed audio tutorial

[Andy Dale]

from previous conversations on this list, i found the definition of the verb
transcoding to be the act of decoding one format and reencoding into another
format, thus making the file less than ideal because the previous lossy
encoder (mp3) lost some bits and now the new encoder (ogg vorbis) loses some
more

Andy
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Pontus Carlsson" <pontus at popwire.com>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:09 AM
Subject: RE: [vorbis] intro to compressed audio tutorial

<p>> Real nice.. Thought about the last part on transcoders. Isn't a
> transcoder an application that translates between two formats instead of
> decompressing and then compress again.. At least in QT the term is used
> in that way
>
> /Pontus
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-vorbis at xiph.org [mailto:owner-vorbis at xiph.org] On
> > Behalf Of Graham Mitchell
> > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 6:27 AM
> > To: vorbis-dev at xiph.org
> > Cc: vorbis at xiph.org
> > Subject: [vorbis] intro to compressed audio tutorial
> >
> >
> > > Hanging around #vorbis, I can tell you that a lot of people show up
> > > with misconceptions about compressed (especially lossy) audio.  An
> > > introduction to the area which uses Vorbis as the specific example
> > > would be a nice thing. Most people learned about lossy
> > audio from MP3
> > > and some have assigned attributes of MP3 to Vorbis
> > incorrectly.  Such
> > > a document would also have some tutorial aspects as well.  If this
> > > interests you, I (and many others on the list) could suggest some
> > > topics for inclusion.
> >
> > This strikes my fancy.
> >
> > Rather than wait around for topics, I just wrote up a few
> > pages since I had a
> > free evening.  New topics are easily added, and if it's too
> > long, it's always
> > easier to cut than to fill.
> >
> http://cs.leander.isd.tenet.edu/~mitchell/vorbis_intro.html
>
> Please provide corrections, feedback, suggestions for additions, flames,
> or
> whatever, either to the list or to me personally.
>
> --
> Graham Mitchell - computer science teacher, Leander High School "If I
> had a nickname, I think I would want it to be 'Prince of Weasels,'
> because then I could go up and bite people and they would turn around
> and go, 'What the--?'  And then they would recognize me, and go, 'Oh,
> it's you, the Prince of Weasels.'"
> -- Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts"
>
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