[vorbis] quality settings

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Peter G. wrote:

> At 17:04 03-01-02 -0600, you wrote:
> >At 16:41 1/3/2002, you wrote:
> >>heck, even -q 3 doesn't
> >>really sound bad to me
> >
> >Quality 3 is roughly equivalent to roughly 160 KBps bitrate of MP3, if I'm 
> >not mistaken.
> 
> You are :-/
> 
> 3 is nominal 112 IIRC
> 5 is nominal 160

He said "160 kbps MP3" not "160 kbps Ogg".  Quality 3 is approximately 112
kbps, but is not the same quality as the equivalently sized MP3.  So his
assessment (while untested) could still be correct.


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Stan Seibert

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