[vorbis] That pesky udial.wav again...

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, John Morton wrote:

> Now I _know_ that high frequency sine wave sweeps are a completely contrived
> sample to test an audio codec with, but I'd hate to think that some idiot kid
> on slashdot will end up badmouthing vorbis because it goes to pieces on a
> sample like this. It would be a lot nicer if it failed to include the sweep
> and didn't contain artifacts.

Vorbis is doing you a favor. If you play udial on a stereo system with
tweeters and have the volume a bit too loud, it will blow them out.
Really.

Anyone using that clip to test a codec will auto-LART themselves sooner or
later.

Now, it's been a while since I saw it, but I seem to remember it did clip.
If it does, there's no guarantee it'll play back fine, even if the encoder
handles it ok. But that's why Vorbis now has...(see next post :)


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