[vorbis] bitrate peeling

[Andy Dale]

do any other audio formats support peeling? cuz afaik you just reencode mp3z
'n' such to get lower bitrates also.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] bitrate peeling

<p>: On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Christian.Buchner wrote:
:
: >
: > > I'd hate to act lame or something, but what exactly is bitrate
peeling?
: >
: > Shop for a HUGE onion. [That is an Ogg file encoded with -q 10. ]
: >
: > After having paid for it  you notice it does not fit into your
: > basket. You start tearing off the outer layers until it fits
: > [ you peel the Ogg File ]
: >
: > Now you'll have a smaller onion and you didn't even need to shop
: > for a new one [ i.e. no need to re-encode the file with -q 5 ]
:
: theoretically, though, can you restore what you peel to get the
: original quality back in a lossless way?  that is, in any of the
: other audio formats?
:
: rday
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