[vorbis] CVS RC4 -q0 too good!

Geoff Shang gshang at uq.net.au
Thu Jul 4 05:56:49 PDT 2002



On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Akos Maroy wrote:

> this is only one side of the coin. in other cases, what you need is the
> best quality for a certain maximum bitrate (in streaming, for example).
> somehow this criteria has to be able to be specified as well.

Isn't that what managed bitrates are for?  Aren't they a different kettle
of fish?  I mean, given a certain bitrate range, the encoder can only do so
much.  I don't really see where specifying quality can help much if the
encoder has, say, only 32kbps to work with, for example.

Geoff.

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