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Hi, I have a track which when encoded with Mode_C or even Mode_E does not encode well at all ... It's a jazz flute track with a lot of plate echo. The flute (centred in the mix) almost disappears ... I am away for a few days, but if someone would like to look at this I would be grateful ... A small clip can be grabbed from my ftp server ... ftp.york.ac.uk in:

Hello, congratulations to the Ogg Vorbis team - RC2 sounds good. But... RC2 in 128 kbps mode seems to clip off all frequencys beyond 16 KHz. On the tracks I tested Beta 4 gave response even beyond 18 KHz. Some testings on a randomly chosen track: (other tracks gave similar results) Artist: Judas Priest Album: Jugulator Title: Bullet Train Beta4: 127 kbps, ~ 18 KHz (!) RC2: 132 kbps (!), ~ 16

Hi guys. IMO now it's definitely time for finalizing Vorbis and throwing it in the arena. Two reasons: - RC2 sounds wonderfully well, I'm really amazed how good it is.. and I personally think there's little room for further improvement in sound quality.. - portable music devices are starting to take off (see Waitec, Creative, Apple and many other vendors). Wouldn't be good

Hello everyone, I'm a student at the Universtiy of Delaware, and will be soon starting some research on the effects of lossy audio compression on speech sounds. I will be preforming test with both mp3 and vorbis. First of all, if I use the '--ogg' switch to lame, does lame use GPSYCHO to encode the wave, or some other psychoacoustic model (perhaps one designed for

Hi, Has anyone thought about using the multichannel format as a way of distributing "musician minus one" files? Eh? I hear you ask. Ok. Basically these are multitrack files but you can mute the solo track so you, the musician, can practice against the other "players". You can buy CD's of this nature, but of course, the solo instrument is on one channel and the others on

I've just installed RC2 and I'm very excited about the quality. It's so much better than MP3. This is the first version I've used since I just found out about Ogg Vorbis. I did notice that very high frequencies seem to be missing but since not many people can hear much above 18 KHz it's not much of an issue. I suppose this resolves the hiss problem so prevalent in MP3.

you can write your own software mixer that can decode MP3 on the PS2 so I can't see why you can't do that with ogg, however, even mp3 is processor intensive and programers are not going to give up that much processor power which will decrease or detract from the rest of the game. However, I'm sure there are some people out there that have been able to work around this. Regardless, ps1

Files encoded with rc2 (comes from the latest RPM available at vorbis.com) seems to be unreadable for ogg123 < rc2 version (for example, beta4) Is that normal ? Will this file be readable with ogg123 >= rc2 ? Are plugins for windows player updated, can they read ogg files encoded with ogg123 rc2 ? --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage:

I'm not sure that this is not my fault, but here it goes: I'm trying to encode a 22 kHz Mono stream. I started with the encoder example and made it take dynamic channels etc. This is how I init it: vorbis_info_init(&VorbisInfo); vorbis_encode_init(&VorbisInfo, 1, 22050, -1, 128000, -1); then I get a crash in: _vp_quantize_couple(vorbis_look_psy * 0x01e6a6ec,

In case you missed it, RC2 is on slashdot.org too: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/13/1811241 BTW Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote on /. that RC3 should appear very soon (in a week or so)? Also, it looks like Wall Street Journal article is not available on-line (at least to non-registered persons). If someone is registered or have a paper edition, please post this article somewhere so that we

Hi! I would like to share with you an interesting test result. I re-encoded a song 10 times (the 2. made from the 1., the 3. made from the 2.,... the 10. made from the 9.), with a beta4 (CVS 20010620) and with an RC2 (CVS 20010817) library version, 256 kbit/s mode, channel coupling disabled at RC2. The beta4 is very good at the 10. encoding too, but the RC2 has some interesting quality bugs. So,

Hi, What version of the decoder do I need to decode RC2 encoded files? I used beta 4 in some utilities and I didn't download the newest vorbis source yet and a user reported the utility didn't work. Olaf van der Spek Almere, Holland Olaf@XCC.TMFWeb.NL http://xcc.tiberian.com/ --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To

Since 1.0rc2 was released i have found that ogg@64k sounds almost like mp3@128k (in 95% of the 3000 files i encoded...) I tested 1.0rc3 and 64k bitrate (quality=0.0) gives less good quality than before. And bad : it takes longer to encode ! (1.7x vs. 2.0x on a P2/500MHz) Effectively 64k ogg files encoded with rc3 are smaller than files encoded with rc2. I hear people debatting on how satisfied

Hi, I've got a number of sound effects for a mod of a game in Ogg Vorbis format, encoded with OggDrop (RC2). WinAmp with Nullsoft Vorbis Decoder RC1 and RC2 freeze when I try to play those files. Maybe it's because the files are so small? Both OGG and WAV versions can be found at http://xccu.sourceforge.net/temp/winamp_crash.zip Olaf van der Spek Almere, Holland Olaf@XCC.TMFWeb.NL

Well, this question comes once and again. I have RC3 and Garf's RC2 tuned versions (160 and 350) in a nice graph. Nobody should be surprised that RC3 is better, but in some cases GRC2 shows better EAQUAL/bitrate results. There seems to be room for improvement in RC3 with some tweaking. See it by yourself at http://audio.sinderman.com/ Cheers, AGS.

After doing an informal (128k) listening test, I have concluded that I prefer Beta4 over RC2. The 16kHz low-pass on the RC2 encoder makes it sound like FM radio. Both encoders SEEM to have a couple of dB bump at 10kHz. JT --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to

Hi: I just wanted to know where exactly the problem with re-encoding in RC2 was. Was it in vorbis' ability to cope well with its own output as input, or did the first encode produce output that didn't lend itself to re-encoding? The difference is important. If it's the latter, anyone wanting to re-encode material will have to first encode it with RC3. I guess what I'm asking

Hello -- I desperately want to start using Ogg compression on music I release on the internet, but I am encountering a fair amount of artifacts. I noticed some in beta4 and was hoping they would disappear with RC1. However, I've been playing with RC2 and I've still been banging my head into a number of problems. A majority of the music I make has long drones with a fair amount of spectral

Hi folks, The folks on RedHat who have been complaining of poor-quality encodes prompted us to track down the trouble, and it's a compiler bug. We have the asm .s files to prove it :-) The summary: EGCS (gcc) versions through March 1999, including up to at least gcc/egcs 2.91.66 have a serious floating point optimization bug that hits Vorbis. This is a fairly old gcc version, but RedHat

Hi folks, The folks on RedHat who have been complaining of poor-quality encodes prompted us to track down the trouble, and it's a compiler bug. We have the asm .s files to prove it :-) The summary: EGCS (gcc) versions through March 1999, including up to at least gcc/egcs 2.91.66 have a serious floating point optimization bug that hits Vorbis. This is a fairly old gcc version, but RedHat