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

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Mon Oct 18 13:38:26 PDT 2004




On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 02:25:55AM -0500, Christopher John Harrington wrote:
> 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.

Probably more an issue with decode latency than actual CPU usage.

Monty


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