[vorbis] Virgin Radio launches an Ogg stream

[Paul Martin]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:00:07PM +0100, Philip Heron wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 21:45, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> > This is the best sound quality for an internet radio station I
> > have EVER heard!  
> 
> Oddly enough, that 96k stream sounds much better than the digital
> satellite stream they have in the UK. - Which IMHO sounds like utter
> crap. (128K MP2 maybe, anyone know?)

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/dab_vs_dsat.htm

It was last measured at 192kbps, and DVB-S audio is MPEG1 Layer 2,
which suggests it may be the multiband compression (eg. Optimod)
getting in the way of the encoding. Such compression makes the codec
have to work much harder.

Tip for radio stations wanting to get best usage out of DAB and DVB's
MP2 compression: don't do any processing of the signal other than
overall level companding. It'll probably help your Internet stream
quality, too.


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