[vorbis] Vorbis determined to be as good as MPC at 128 kbps!

[Michael Smith]

On Tuesday 25 May 2004 00:59, noprivacy at earthlink.net wrote:
> The tested version is not, unfortunately, a "completely tuned, ready for
> consumer" version.  But it does show that it can be substantially improved
> over what the current Xiph version is.  The Xiph version will always be the
> low quality 'reference' design, and never the 'high quality, highly tuned'
> one that consumers should actually use.

<p>This is very unfair. We welcome third-party development of new and better 
encoders - but in many cases we'll (eventually) fold changes back in. Whilst 
it's true that as the 'reference encoder' _speed_ (in terms of things like 
highly platform-specific optimisations) isn't a real goal, high quality is. 

So, right now, for some range of bitrates, it's likely there are better 
encoders. That doesn't mean the official reference encoder is never the best 
one, nor does it mean that it won't become (again) the best at any particular 
bitrate range.

Mike

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