[vorbis] bitrate peeling

[R]

So, basically, it can act like a kind of RealAudio stream, in which the bitrate may 
vary throughout the broadcast, depending on net congestion and bandwidth?

Sounds tasteful :-)

Rachid

<p><p>7-11-2002 17:05:19, Myles Buckley <mylesb at conexsys.net> wrote:

>>I'd hate to act lame or something, but what exactly is bitrate peeling?
>
>Bitrate peeling is taking an existing high bitrate stream and "peeling" away
>the higher resolution data to result in a lower bitrate stream WITHOUT
>re-encoding.
>
>imagine this (very simplified):
>Nhe OGG audio stream can be imagined as BASEinfo + lowq + mediumq + 
highq,
>where the q's are the resolution data.
>
>now, take away the highq and you have a smaller stream of (BASEinfo + lowq 
+
>mediumq)
>
>Myles
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