[vorbis] Is Vorbis prone to clipping?

Michael Smith msmith at xiph.org
Thu Jul 3 18:46:35 PDT 2003



On Friday 04 July 2003 00:17, Headless wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with the Lame MP3 encoder I reduce the amplitude of the input signal
> prior to encoding with the --scale option to prevent clipping that can
> be introduced due to resampling errors.
>
> Is Vorbis prone to this sort of clipping?
>

It can be, for much the same reasons as mp3. oggenc has a --scale option as 
well, if you want to use it.
Or you could just encode normally, and use the replaygain stuff that others 
have mentioned. That works well if your player(s) support it.

Mike

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