[vorbis] intro to compressed audio tutorial

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Pontus Carlsson wrote:

> 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

That's true.  The term may have been corrupted slightly.  I would call a
"smart transcoder" one that can translate between two formats without a
complete decode/recode step.  Unfortunately, only "stupid transcoders" are
possible for converting between Ogg and MP3 given how different the codecs
are.

It's really a continuous scale between "smart" and "stupid" depending upon how
much quality you lose in the conversion.


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Stan Seibert

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