[vorbis] Bitrate stripping?

[Petr Tomasek]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 03:18:29AM +1300, John Morton wrote:
> On Friday 02 January 2004 14:13, Arc Riley wrote:
> >  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.
> 
> Not by itself, but combined with ever increasing cycles/bandwidth/storage for 
> your dollar, they all will make it irrelevant in 2-3 years.
> 

Well, actually I though that peeling would be superior to 
just having multiple streams, since it would
allow much more  fine-grained control over the 
bitrate... So, maybe it's not irrelevant even
in 2/3 years from now...

PT>


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Petr Tomasek, http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek/

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