[vorbis] Quality & Tags

[Peter G.]

At 09:47 31-01-02 +0100, you wrote:
>Alexander Poquet wrote:
> > QUALITY=<number>
> >
> > Hope some of you agree.
>
>I absolutely agree, although we don't "really" need a quality tag. The
>nominal bitrate already shows roughly what quality level has been used,
>e.g. 160032 (160kbps) for q5, 80kbps for q1, etcetc. More important than
>that is whether bitrate management has been used or not.
>
>I'd rather go for something like an ENCSETTINGS tag or whatever (let's
>fight over that for 2 months, please :) ) and put the quality related
>commandline parameters in that. (E.g. ENCSETTINGS=-b 96 -M 105,
>ENCSETTINGS=-q 3.45, ...) It shouldn't be too difficult for encoders
>with graphical interfaces to figure out what commandline would have been
>used.

SNIP

>In a second thought, I'd go for ENCSETTINGS myself - this would be the
>most flexible and easy solution. We don't have an 1.0 release, so
>ironing out all scary technical things for the dumb user market
>shouldn't be a top priority yet.
>
>
>Moritz

<p>Pah. IMO you're making this way to complicated. If your generic "dumb by 
laziness"-user do not care for examining the parameters (as they are at the 
moment) and variables used for encoding they will most likely care nothing 
for what a tag called ENCSETTINGS=-q 4,5 or ENCSETTINGS=-b 128 -m 32 -M 256 
mean. People who will care about a tag like this will also be the people 
who know what the "raw" values mean. Keep it simple  Leave the "nice 
presentation" for GUI-programs/plugins.

<p>Kind regards, Peter.
Adress is not munged.

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