6 Jul
2004
6 Jul
'04
1:03 p.m.
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 14.35, Jan Depner wrote:
That sets the nominal bitrate. What you are seeing is
the actual
bitrate for sections that don't need to be encoded at 128. In other
places it will go above 128. Play your .ogg on xmms and watch the
bitrate display. I don't use the -b switch when I encode. I normally
just use -q 5.
Jan
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 04:19, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> I'm trying out oggenc under linux/unstable, but I'm confused! Using
> "oggenc -b 128" ends with a file with bitrate around 60-70 acording the
> the report printed by oggenc...
If I remember correctly vorbis does not have a constant bitrate option. The -b
is probably used only for "hinting" at which bitrate you wish to have. It
could very well be as Jan suggests, it will get higher after a while, or it's
simply a bug.
Anyway you are probably better of using the -q switch.
For your information. Testing done lately
http://www.rjamorim.com/test/multiformat128/results.html
suggests that the alternative vorbis encoder
http://www.geocities.jp/aoyoume/aotuv/ gives superior quality (to the
standard encoder, and pretty much anything else).
/Robert
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