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

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher John Harrington" <webkid at webkid.com>
Cc: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Vorbis] Question on Quality factor, Bitrate and decode table


> 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.
>

Not that i know anything about it... but would it be a possibility that 
certain optimisations have been done for certain codebooks. I really don't 
know enough about the vorbis codebooks... but is there a boundary at q2 
where a different codebook starts being used ?

Zen.