Slashdot interview re: vorbis

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Geoff -

After seeing your earlier note about piping audio streams with lame, I
decided to give that program a whirl. I have been using bladeenc until
now. I noticed after compiling and installing the August 6 beta release
that it now supports encoding and decoding the ogg vorbis format as well
as mp3. I am curious - is that a new feature? Have you used it? How does
it work? I have not been too happy with bladeenc as an mp3 encoder because
it requires a minimum of 32 kilobits sampling rate inputs, and the
resulting mp3 file loses something in the translation. That is, if you
only have 8k or 11.025 or 16k to start with, it seems wasteful to first
artificially inflate the sampling rate to 32k in order to compress it with
bladeenc, and lots of noise creeps into the signal along the way -
probably with sox resampling.

I am hopeful that lame can do a better job, and am excited to see ogg
vorbis support too.

Chuck.


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