[vorbis] bitrate

[Ed Sweetman]

On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 17:41, Moritz Grimm wrote:
> Mij wrote:
> > >>Why now vorbis allow encoding @ "Average bitrate: 361.8 kb/s" ?
> > >>
> > >
> > >Why not?
> > >
> > "Ogg Vorbis is a fully Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free,
> > general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality
> > (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and
> > variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel"
> 
> Ah, now I see. Well, first of all, those numbers are per channel, and
> stereo files have two channels. And then it also appears to be pretty
> outdated, afaik one could expect more than 256kbps per channel on some
> hard to encode clips at -q 10.
>

in vbr oggs i see bitrates in the upper 350's for stereo files, it's not
uncommon for those bitrates even in ~q 5ish encodes. (not entire files,
but blocks) 

> I also believe to remember that documentation fixes etc have pretty low
> priority at the moment.
> 
> 
> Moritz

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