[vorbis] resampling to 48 kHz

Oscar Sundbom oscar.sundbom at swipnet.se
Tue Apr 13 07:44:14 PDT 2004



On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 01:41:22 +1000
Geoff Shang <gshang at pacific.net.au> wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, David Bachner wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I do! Are you saying that the distortions of the
> > higher frequencies in ogg files encoded from 44.1 kHz
> > wav files are because of the soundcard. I find the
> > same distortions on both my desktop machine (with the
> > SB live card) and my laptop (with "Crystal SoundFusion
> > CS4281 WDM audio"). Resampling the wav's from 44.1 to
> > 48 kHz before encoding seems to be the only way to get
> > rid of the distortions.

Sounds more like buggy code/libraries/etc. than buggy sound card, imho. I've got an SB Live! Player 5.1 and I
can't say I've noticed anything sounding bad b/c it's played at 44.1khz. Perhaps I should test it vs a good
software upsampler. Still, we're talking lossily compressed audio here, at low bit rates. Most of the damage
done to the sound would happen at compression, not while playing back.

> Just for grins, have you tried doing the reverse - encoding at 44.1khz,
> then decoding to wav and then upsampling the resulting audio?

Wouldn't it just suffice to rip and play at 44.1khz? If it's the soundcard, surely it should be noticable
then as well.

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