[vorbis] Compression Artifacts at -q 5. Help!

[Ross Vandegrift]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 05:11:21PM -0400, Lawrence Wade wrote:
>    - Red Hat is the most popular distribution of Linux, and 6.x versions 
> remain quite popular still running on workhorses all over the place - I can 
> think of a dozen still in use among workplaces and friends. While it's 
> reprehensible that their compiler was defective, it's a fact of life.

Well, it's also a fact of life that PC hardware is flaky.  Should free
software developers support my software if I have broken RAM?  I think
you have to draw the line somewhere, and the way I see it, the compiler
needs to be assumed to work, just like the hardware.

>    - Finding a modern but really compact no-frills text-only 
> takes-no-time-to-install lemme-ping-another-host-and-compile-libvorbis 
> Linux distribution is getting tough.

Slackware is definitely the best here.  Fast installation, great
setup, and if you want nothing fancy, just install the A, D, and N sets.
This is even faster if you get used to doing the "expert" setup that
lets you choose packages in batches.

>    - Ogg kicks butt. I used to work in the professional audio field and 
> have done sound for The Three Tenors, Harry Belafonte and Garth Brooks, to 
> do a little namedropping.

Do you have an SB16 that you've retrofitted a bunch of the discrete amp
components, or are there two free software audio users who've done sound
with Garth Brooks?

> Can it be done effectively enough to catch fidelity problems 
> more subtle than mine?  It's hard to predict the next bad compiler or 
> whether the Pentium V will have the same math error as the Pentium 60.

I'm afraid the answer is no.  The nature of lossy compression is just
oggenc saying "this is the best I can do with the given parameters: what
do you think?"


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