[vorbis] bitrate peeling

[Christian.Buchner]

> And probably as slow as a good encoder. No, most of the work must be done by
> the
> encoder, not by the peeler. Otherwise the peeler loses most of its usefulness.
> Peeling should be at least as fast as converting back to wave.

Well at some point the peeler may have to convert from lossless channel coupling
to lossy coupling. That requires more than just cutting bits. ;) For extremely
low bitrate streaming it may even have to drop all stereo information.

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