[Vorbis] Question on Quality factor, Bitrate and decode table

[Greg Wooledge]

Ian Malone (ibm21 at cam.ac.uk) wrote:

> I have a question about this one: players like the iRiver iFP800 claim 
> Ogg/Vorbis
> support for (eg) 44.1KHz, 96Kbps~225Kbps.  Is this simply due to
> hardware speed?
> 
> Most of my .ogg files lie in this window, but does anyone have any
> experience of what happens when the 'instantaneous' bit-rate
> wanders outside it?

When this happens on the Neuros, it "chirps" quite audibly.  It's not
quite as predictable as one might guess; the "chirps" occur at pretty
random times, which seem to indicate that it depends on other factors
such as whether the disk is being hit, fluctuation in demands of the
FM transmitter, etc., as much as it does on the bitrate.

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