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...ry educational page, I decided to augment the info. This example is more simple, it involves the comparision between two streams of the same radio station, FranceInter (a station of Radio France in Paris). The ogg stream is running at around 30 kbps/11 kHz in stereo. The WMA stream (provided by yacast.fr) is running at 16 kbps/22 kHz in mono. The ogg stream is being encoded on an old Pentium 166 mmx (a HP Vectra, an office workstation from 1996). Yacast won't release any info on what they use, however, Windows 2000/XP won't even boot on an old Pentium 166 mmx. The stream url's:...

hello, I like your point here .. it's difficult to make such a comparision, since yacast.fr choosed to stream like that. Why did they choose to stream like that? That's beyond me, since Radio France has a budjet of millions. The point of this comparision was to show why is Radio France doing and paying for something like this? Me, with cheap computers which were had no more value...

--- boink <boink@tetter.xs4all.nl> wrote: > The ogg stream is running at around 30 kbps/11 kHz in stereo. The > WMA > stream (provided by yacast.fr) is running at 16 kbps/22 kHz in > mono. Is stereo vs. mono, and 22khz vs. 11khz even a fair comparison? 22khz vs. 11khz: 22khz, by definition, gives the 22khz stream much more frequency range and *opportunity* to sound clearer. Yes, there are more audible artifacts in the .wma than in th...