Daniel James
2013-Jul-17 16:27 UTC
[Vorbis-dev] Current bitrate equivalents for quality modes?
Hello, While tweaking the stream configuration interface in the Airtime broadcast automation tool (http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/airtime/) we noticed that Liquidsoap uses the zero to one scale for Vorbis quality, rather than the more familiar zero to ten scale used by oggenc. It seems I'm not the only person confused by this: http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2009-January/067964.html Airtime tries to hide this complexity by offering a choice of equivalent average bitrates, similar to the table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis#Technical_details the idea being that Airtime users will get an idea of the bandwidth cost per listener, and more easily be able to compare Vorbis against MP3 or other codecs. However the Wikipedia page hints that libvorbis 1.2 usually compresses better than the figures given. We typically use libvorbis 1.3.2 from Debian wheezy or Ubuntu Precise LTS. Does anyone have a table of equivalent bitrates for libvorbis 1.3.x? Or is there a way we can measure the real bitrate of a Vorbis stream for ourselves, e.g. from an Icecast stream? Thanks! Daniel