[vorbis] Uncoupled mode?

[Owen Emry]

Craig Dickson wrote:
> So would it be correct to assume that if I take a mono 
> recording from a
> stereo CD (two tracks of essentially identical data), encoding it as a
> two-channel Vorbis file would give me an only slightly larger 
> file than
> if I first used a wave editor to throw away one of the two 
> channels and
> then encoded it as a single-channel Vorbis file? (with all 
> other encoder
> settings the same, of course)

FYI I tried this yesterday with RC3 and found the resulting ogg files to be substantially smaller if I removed one channel from the input wave file first.  These were mono recordings that were ripped from a CD -- each channel was bit-identical.  I can post actual numbers if anyone is interested or surprised -- the files are at home.

Regards,
Owen

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