[Vorbis] Bitrate Peeling (no. really)

[Segher Boessenkool]

>> From what I understand, and I don't know much if anything about 
>> vorbis'
> internals, peeling primarily depends on the stream being encoded in 
> such a way that makes it peelable.  The reason why it doesn't 
> currently work is that current streams aren't encoded this way (or 
> enough of this way to make it work).  This would tend to suggest then 
> that it won't work with existing files.

Does work, but not very well.

> The page on the wiki suggests countering this by making it possible to 
> convert current streams to ones which can be peeled.  I'd be 
> interested to hear from someone like Monty as to whether this would be 
> in fact possible without reencoding.

You need re-encoding, but it is *non-lossy* re-encoding.


Segher