[Vorbis] quality -2 in vorbis?

[Paul Martin]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 04:34:57PM -0500, Raymond Grote wrote:

> I was just looking at reviews on vorbis and reading some listening test
> results when I came across several web sites that were saying something
> about Vorbis quality -2. From what I read a few programs have Vorbis going
> down to quality -2 and I even think hydrogen audio forums mentions it in a
> speech compression topic. Does this quality really exist and has anyone
> even heard of it?

It's part of the aoTuV tunings. Unfortunately, the latest is aoTuV beta 5
based on Vorbis 1.1.2. I don't think anyone's ported them to 1.2.0.

http://www.geocities.jp/aoyoume/aotuv/

Personally, I find q=-1.001 using aoTuV b5 is very useable for streaming at
about 45kbps.

-- 
Paul Martin <pm at nowster.org.uk>