I appreciate that -q is supposed to work with -m and -M now. It works
on most files. Here is a pathological case that doesn't: a 30 second
sine wave in stereo.
Using libVorbis v1.1.1,
$ oggenc -q3 -m 96 sinewav.wav
Enabling bitrate management engine
Opening with wav module: WAV file reader
Encoding "sinewav.wav" to
"sinewav.ogg"
at quality level 3.00 using constrained VBR (min 96 kbps, no max)
Failed to set bitrate min/max in quality mode
(It does not encode the file)
The hard limit encodes, but fails to set the limit:
$ oggenc -q3 --managed --advanced-encode-option bitrate_hard_min=96
sinewav.wav
Enabling bitrate management engine
Opening with wav module: WAV file reader
Encoding "sinewav.wav" to
"sinewav.ogg"
at quality level 3.00 using constrained VBR (no min or max)
Setting advanced encoder option "bitrate_hard_min" to 96
Failed to set advanced rate management parameters
[ 99.2%] [ 0m00s remaining] \
Done encoding file "sinewav.ogg"
File length: 0m 30.0s
Elapsed time: 0m 01.8s
Rate: 16.3755
Average bitrate: 13.3 kb/s
I'm happy to send a link (in private) to the .wav file.
Nic Watson