[vorbis] How to choose quality

[soo at o2.pl]

Hi

I made a CD-backup with cdparanoia | oggenc and I tried to use different values of -q listening to the effect by cdparanoia | oggenc -o - | mplayer -. The best quality was 8 -- why? Oggenc version was the precompiled 1.0 from Mandrake 9.
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