[vorbis] Uncoupled mode?

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Sat Jul 13 00:13:47 PDT 2002



On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 03:38:26PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Moritz Grimm wrote:
> 
> > Not using any coupling would be a waste of space - it makes no sense to
> > store mono parts in a stereo tune twice, i.e. there's only one of two
> > channels stored completely plus the difference to the second channel.
> 
> So would it be correct to assume that if I take a mono recording from a
> stereo CD (two tracks of essentially identical data)

Beware the randomness between the two channels.  Even if you have -80dB
of, say, tape hiss, that's still alot of differing bits ;-)

Monty

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