[vorbis] just an idea about quality evaluation

[Daniel Schregenberger]

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Ross Vandegrift wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:16:10PM +0100, Stoffke wrote:
> > Hello 
> > 
> > I had an idea about judging the quality of ogg vorbis 
> > (or any other lossy codec)
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Others have commented on why this is a bad test for perceptual lossless
> testing, *however*, this test does have it's place.
> 
> If you're not comparing how the codecs sound (which most people are
> interested in), but what data they throw away, this test is very
> valuable.

So I was essentially right: it may be a help to choose a decent quality setting
for converting mp3s to ogg. (I mean: I can't hear a difference between a
256k_mp3-->q10 and a 256k_mp3-->q9; maybe looking at how much data has been
discarded helps me choose a quality)

-- Daniel

<p>I just forgot my whole philosophy of life!!!
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