[vorbis] Happy New Year! RC3 Released!

[Craig Dickson]

Jack Moffitt wrote:

> RC4 is already well underway and will feature a complete set of modes
> for 22.05kHz, etc, bitrate management for all inputs, and much improved
> lower bitrate quality (although this has already improved quite a bit in
> RC3!).

One more question... With the focus for RC4, according to the above,
being on improved support for low bitrates and source material other
than stereo 16-bit 44.1 kHz, would it be reasonable at this point
(subject to change, of course) to think that RC4 or 1.0 will likely
_not_ feature significant improvements to the encoding of stereo 16-bit
44.1 kHz data at -q 3 or better? Or to put it in more practical terms,
if I encode my whole CD library with RC3 at -q 3 or better (I'm
preparing for some ear tests with -q 3 and -q 5 at the moment), is there
likely to be much advantage to doing it all over again with RC4 or 1.0?

I realize this is kind of an impossible question, since we don't know
what bugs remain to be found in RC3, or what new ideas Monty may come up
with before 1.0 ships, but an answer in terms of what is currently
anticipated would be helpful.

Thanks,

Craig

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