After reading the documentation on the different types of channel coupling I began to wonder what effects this might have on bit peeling. Say for instance an audio file is encoded at a rather high bit rate with channel coupling type "X". Later on the same file is streamed, and is peeled down to a much lower bit rate in the process. However at this lower bit rate, channel coupling type "Y" is much more effective than type "X" for the reduced bit rate. From what I understand of cascaded coding, all the chained codebooks use the same type of coupling, meaning peeled files would retain the same type of coupling. The question is this: Is it feasible to use different types of coupling within the cascaded codebooks. Codebooks lower down in the chain would use different types than those higher up in the chain so that if the file is peeled, the optimal coupling type for the given bit rate would be the predominate type? And, if it is feasible, is it even practical? (Sorry if I use any incorrect terminology, I barely understand any of this stuff myself. I think you can grasp the idea I'm getting at though.) *I sent this once before, but it got stuck somewhere between my computer and Xiph.org, so if a similar message shows up out of nowhere in the future just ignore it. Once a message showed up 3 days after I sent it.* --- >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.