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

[Monty]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 01:23:40AM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Ian Malone 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?
> 
> 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 possbible for a number of reasons.  It strikes me as odd, but
there could be a technical reason (like higherlatency introduced by
larger blocksize at 45kbps?  Hmmm).

Monty