[Vorbis] Re: vorbis 1.1 rc 1 now tagged in SVN

[Rodrigo Gómez]

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> Don't get me wrong, I'm all for quality.  But quality -1 was pretty good
> (considering) in vorbis 1.0.  With an improvement in 1.1, surely there now
> is a case for an even lower bitrate mode?  I feel it's best to provide
> people with the option of going below where picky people find it
> acceptable, because it might be satisfactory for a given application.  The
> number of quality -1 streams on the net is a case in point.  It may even
be
> possible to hear streams of that sonic quality on a 56k modem if we could
> shave a few kbps off it.

I'm with you. I use quality -1 actually in a logging app I have, and being
able to get a smaller file with the same quality (wich is pretty good for
this purposes) would be great.

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"Geoff Shang" <gshang at pacific.net.au> escribió en el mensaje
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> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Monty wrote:
>
> >  c) AoTuV introduced quality ranges down to -2; the 1.1 Xiph
> > libvorbisenc implements the same modes but maps them down to -1 as in
> > previous Xiph releases.  The bitrate of quality -1 in 1.1 is similar
> > to quality -1 in 1.0.1 but the quality of the output is improved.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I'm all for quality.  But quality -1 was pretty good
> (considering) in vorbis 1.0.  With an improvement in 1.1, surely there now
> is a case for an even lower bitrate mode?  I feel it's best to provide
> people with the option of going below where picky people find it
> acceptable, because it might be satisfactory for a given application.  The
> number of quality -1 streams on the net is a case in point.  It may even
be
> possible to hear streams of that sonic quality on a 56k modem if we could
> shave a few kbps off it.
>
> Geoff.