[vorbis] Is Vorbis prone to clipping?

[Michael Smith]

> Not in my version (OggEnc from vorbis-tools-1.0-win32.zip):
>
> OGGENC.EXE: unrecognized option `--scale'
> WARNING: Unknown option specified, ignoring->

As someone else said, it was added after 1.0.

>
> > Or you could just encode normally, and use the replaygain stuff that
> > others have mentioned. That works well if your player(s) support it.
>
> That would address potential decoder clipping, encoder clipping can still
> occur afaics.
>

No, the encoder can't (in that sense) clip, it doesn't have the same fixed 
range that causes this type of clipping. So you can address this entirely in 
the player.

Mike

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