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

[Tyler Knott]

>>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.
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>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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But wouldn't oggenc encode the exact same file the exact same way with 
the exact same parameters every time? Couldn't we include a few test 
files(10 to15 seconds, uncompressed, various sample rates/bits) with 
some scripts to encode them and them compare the MD5sums to known good 
copies?  Wouldn't this catch the vast majority of broken oggencs?

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