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

Christopher John Harrington webkid at webkid.com
Sun Oct 17 00:25:55 PDT 2004


Geoff Shang wrote:
> An upper limit makes sense, but why the 96kbps minimum?  Are they 
> seriously suggesting that their players won't play anything encoded at 
> -q < 2?

It's certainly an oddity, but for example the Neuros device has a very 
hard time playing -q0 streams. It may have something to do with limited 
buffer space in terms of packets? I'm not sure.

-Chris


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