[vorbis] RC2 artifacts

Aleksandar Dovnikovic
Sun, 19 Aug 2001 00:51:51 -0000

Hello k.m.krebs,

Thursday, 16 August, 2001, 05:59:36, you wrote:

kmk>   Hello -- I desperately want to start using Ogg compression on music I
kmk> release on the internet, but I am encountering a fair amount of
artifacts.
kmk>   Here is a recent example I ran into.
kmk> http://www.notype.com/users/833-45/ogg/fadein_01.ape
kmk> http://www.notype.com/users/833-45/ogg/fadein_01.pac
kmk>   no need for golden ears to hear to high frequency chirpy-bubbles in
both
kmk> the 64 & 128 kbps versions.  The 256 version seems to avoid the
problem, at
kmk> least to my ears.

The problem is most probably in channel coupling, since beta4 sounds
OK to me at 128kbps. RC2 also sounds OK if you use 160kbps or higher
mode.


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