[Vorbis] Re: bitrate limits don't work with -q settings?

[Nic Watson]

You can use normalize to increase the volume of the encoded files:
<http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~cvaill/normalize/>

There's no way to guarantee that VBR encoding won't fall below a certain 
level at some point.  I tried the same thing.  You'll have to use ABR:

oggenc --bitrate=104 --min-bitrate=96 --max-bitrate=224 whatever.wav

104 kbps is sort of -q 3.

Nic

Frank Murphy wrote:
 > ...
> 
> Also, it seems to put gaps between the tracks. I have firmware 1.24 on an 
> iFP-890, but I don't know if that is changed on a future firmware. (It's been 
> 100% stable, with this.) I've also noticed that the volume for oggs is lower 
> than for mp3s. I don't know if that's because of how they were encoded 
> though.
> 
> Anyway, what I would like is to be able to convert (or peel, or whatever) my 
> oggs so that I can be sure that they will play on my iFP. I see that iriver 
> points on an "OGG File Bit Rate Converter" program, but I don't see it in 
> their downloads. If anyone finds the magic command line arguments to assure 
> that the Average bitrate is above 96.1 kbps, I'd appriciate it. (Otherwise, 
> I'll start at -q 2 and increase it until the avg is above 96.)
> 
> Frank
>