[vorbis] RC3?

[Ingo Saitz]

MoiN

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:44:58AM -0500, Monty wrote:
> Well, we need to find some subtle way to dicourage people from using
> ABR.  The masses will immediately latch onto 'bitrate' settings
> because that's what they're used to in mp3, completely ignoring the
> fact that quality settings will *always* produce a higher quality file
> for the same given size.  Just putting it in the manual isn't enough,
> most folks couldn't care less about documentation....

Then make it obvious in the interface, that using an avaerage
bitrate is bad. eg.:

+-------O-G-G--D-R-O-P-------+
|Qual:0 . . . . 5 . . . . 10 |
|           ^                | With the 3rd button you can
| (OK) (Cancel) (<< Details) | toggle the display of the next
+----------------------------+ section.
| Streaming Controls:        |
| Min. Bandwidth: [  0] (0 = |
| Max. Bandwidth: [  0]  off)|
|                            |
| [] Disable Quality Control | Disables (ghosts) the top Qual slider
| Avg. Bandwidth: [   ]      | and unghosts this input field.
+----------------------------+

Here the user has to *disable* quality (if he reads that far *g*)
and never gets to read "bitrate" in the interface. Also it is
clear that -b will disable -q and vice versa.

Note: I don't have windows nor know how oggdrop looks like, so if
the above window looks weird I hope you get at least the idee.

    Ingo

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