[Vorbis] bitrate limits don't work with -q settings?

[Christopher John Harrington]

Nic Watson wrote:
> An intersting side note is that in trying to come up with a small test 
> file that I could distribute, I took 3 differenct 30-second segments 
> from input.wav, my original test case.  All encoded > 96 kbps.  Perhaps 
> there is something peculiar about the bitrate management when encoding 
> certain files.


It could be that the run of repeated data is easier to compress in 
particular chunk sizes, and that your 30 second file is a multiple of 
that. Who knows.

What is the problem with dropping -q3 altogether and allowing oggenc to 
have your minimum of 96 kbps? Unless the other 95% of your collection 
wouldn't be acceptable at this rate.

(terrible, shameless plug alert) The Neuros has no such lower bound on 
bitrates (though it seems to have a rough upper bitrate around 250 kbps) 
and has open source firmware. Think about it. ;)
http://www.neurosaudio.com

-Chris Harrington