[vorbis] Re: Re: fitting lots of music into 10GB with Vorbis

[Segher Boessenkool]

Monty wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:51:37AM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > ratio).  I think Speex will do a better job than Vorbis for a capella
> > _at very low bitrates_.  But you will hear artifacts.  So better use Vorbis.
> 
> Depends on what you mean by 'better'.  Speex will only encode a single
> fundamental well.  CELP-family codecs tend to randomly fall apart into
> white noise when confronted with polyphony.  Dunno if Speex does, but
> it does analyze and extract a single fundamental pitch.

Vorbis falls apart a lot worse on *very low bitrates*, don't you agree? ;)

very low < 10kbps

<p>Segher

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