[vorbis] RC3: I'm impressed

[Andy Dale]

i keep hearing people encoding at qualities 4.99 and 5.  something about
point and phase stereo?  if i'm getting this, apparently in the current rc3
there's a break, and -q 4.99 is like encoding an mp3 in joint stereo, and -q
5 is stereo?  sorta?  maybe?  are there any other splits in the qualities
right now where if you are above or below a certain line it changes modes or
something?  also....if people could email me the quality settings they are
using, i.e. just to my email (andycool22 at peoplepc.com) so i could see what a
majority of people are using, since i'm currently not sure of what quality
settings produce and so on.  this way everyone wouldn't be posting "i
use -q3', 'i use -q 4.99'. =) thanx! ogg rocks!

Andy
andycool22 at peoplepc.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan I. Sharfi" <nisharfi at csupomona.edu>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] RC3: I'm impressed

<p>: On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ed Sweetman wrote:
:
: > > I'm sold on it too. I encode at -q 4.99 and it simply sounds great.
Oggenc
: > > for Win32 is slower but it isn't optimized in any sort of way, from
what I
: > > have seen.
: > >
: >
: > Is anyone working on optimizing the libs ?  Would be nice to see ogg
: > decoding down to the same level as mp3 decoding if it's even feasible.
: > Perhaps using something like the libmmxnow that avifile uses to detect
which
: > routines to use on different chipsets for the x86 arch at least.
: >
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: We might get a bit of speedup with Visual Studio.NET's /G6 (optimize for
: ppro/pII/pIII), but there's no telling at this point. the oggenc.exe
that's
: published for Windows is optimized for speed (at least as far as MSVC++ 6
: will do, at any rate).
:
: If you want more speed, someone'll have to spring for Intel's optimizing
: compiler. I don't know if AMD has its own, however.
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