On Tuesday 06 July 2004 14.35, Jan Depner wrote: 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 -- http://spamatica.se/music/

From man oggenc: <quote> --managed Set bitrate management mode. This turns off the normal VBR encoding, but allows hard or soft bitrate constraints to be enforced by the encoder. This mode is much slower, and may also be lower quality. It is primarily useful for creating files for streaming. Specifying a maximum and average bitrate, and enforcing these. oggenc infile.wav --managed -b 128 -M 160 out.ogg </quote> Regards, Pete. Robert Jonsson wrote: This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Thales, its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt.