[vorbis] bitrate peeling

[Daniil V. Kolpakov]

On 7 îÏÑÂÒØ 2002 23:03, Christian.Buchner wrote:
> As far as I know MP3 stores subband by subband in Huffman coding.
> That means you can cut away whole subbands to cut off the high
> frequencies for example. But that's about all you can do without
> resorting to re-quantization.

That's why mpg123, Winamp and others can decode 44kHz mp3s to, say, 
11kHz PCM with lower CPU usage.


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