[vorbis] Bitrate stripping?

[Arc Riley]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:25:40PM +1300, John Morton wrote:
> Right now 
> it would be one of a number of nice features vorbis has, along with comments 
> that don't suck, easy replaygain support, better quality to size than most of 
> the non-AAC competition. It might even be that way in a year, but two years 
> from now? I think encoder optimizations, monster portables and IceShare will 
> make it irrelevant for most people.

I don't think IceShare would make bitrate peeling irrelevant.  

Especially for streaming, there's alot to be gained by being able to 
send a single Ogg stream to Icecast and have it do the peeling on the 
fly.  For files, even, bitrate peeling would reduce storage space by 
allowing you to store just one copy of the media and have the IceShare 
servlet do the peeling as needed.  

I also think we'll be seeing IceShare hitting the mainstream by this 
comming Summer.  We're pretty close to having a working system setup,
and it can't be much longer before we begin work on writting plugins for
media players/etc.
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