[vorbis] 48000 Hz in vorbis rc3?

[David Balazic]

Moritz Grimm (gtgbr at gmx.net) wrote :

> Michael Smith wrote:
> > >For the sake of convenience, it's nice that Vorbis' VBR supports 48kHz
> > >at decent quality already, but to get back to the start of the
> > >discussion, not all people have the equipment to play it back. To bring
> > >highest possible satisfaction to the audience, 44.1kHz still is the
> > >first choice. IMO.
> > Is this really still true? I suspect, though I have no hard evidence,
> > that there's significantly better hardware support for 48 kHz output
> > than 44.1 kHz (though almost all systems will resample from 44.1kHz
> > either in hardware or software, if the hardware only supports 48 kHz).
> 
> From the people I know, about 25% can playback 48kHz music. This is
> because only few of them have bought their soundcards during the last
> 1-2 years when 48kHz support became common. Only the digital I/Os on
> some soundcards have to resample in order to support 44.1kHz ... there
> was some ranting about the very bad SPDIF of the SB Live!, but I can't
> recall what the exact problem was, but I think it was something about
> the resampling and 44.1 vs 48 kHz.

SB Live! and Audigy resamples EVERYTHING to 48 kHz,
even if you just connect a CD-ROM with SPDIF and send it to
the SPDIF output.

AFAIK :-)


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