When is the target release date for Beta 4? FR --- Michael Smith <msmith@labyrinth.net.au> wrote:> At 05:50 PM 12/21/00 -0600, you wrote: > >Hello, > > > >Does anyone know when the low-bitrate modes (e.g. > 16kbps) might be > supported? I > >was hoping they'd be in Beta 3. The reason I ask > is that I will have to shut > >off mp3 http streaming from my site within the week > and it would be nice if I > >could tell my customers when it would be on again > (in Vorbis format). > > > >I don't mean to sound impatient or ungrateful. I > appreciate all the > voluntary > >work and I think the developers deserve a holiday > break. Just curious about > >where it stands. > > This depends... > > You can produce output at this sort of bitrate with > an unmodified encoder, > as-is. However, the quality won't be anywhere near > as good as it could be > (it may be 'good enough', though - try it out). > > Just downsample the input file (use something like > sox, or whatever tool > you have), and change it to mono - I think 16 kbps > should be reachable with > a low sampling rate. > > As far as good quality low bitrate goes - beta4 > should have a lot of stuff > towards that, but I don't think tuning for bitrates > that low will be done > by then. I may be wrong, though. > > Michael > > --- >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 > 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' > containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. > No subject is needed. > Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will beignored/filtered. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ --- >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 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.