[vorbis] CVS RC4 -q0 too good!

[Nicola Larosa]

> I agree with this - for post 1.0 releases. However, isn't the point of
> rc releases to thrash out things like this to a result that wont be
> quibbled with for all time? If -q0 is so good now, and -q3 is enough for
> most people... with 4.99 enough for even alot of audiophiles...then it
> seems a large swathe of "quality range" is wasted, simply because it's
> "too good".

I second this. It looks like Vorbis quality, as a function of the quality 
setting, is pretty logarithmic, i.e. it goes up too soon.

The only differences I can hear are a few cases between -q 0 and -q 1, and 
just *one* case (applause.wav) between -q 4.99 and -q 5. Nothing else, apart 
for some "muffleness" (is that a word?).

Admit it, Vorbis is just *too* good. Let's hear some of those nasty 
artifacts, for Hertz' sake!

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Nicola Larosa - nico at tekNico.net

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