In the last episode (Nov 14), Greg Wooledge said:
> Dan Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Unfortunately, ogg is no good for streaming, as its minimum bitrate
> > is 64k.
>
> That's completely untrue. I've heard of people producing Vorbis
> bitstreams as low as 5 kbps (of course, this is a degenerate case and
> is obviously not very good quality).
>
> The same methods of reducing bitrate that work in MP3 work in Vorbis
> as well. Reduce the sampling rate, reduce the number of channels,
> reduce the quality.
I guess the problem might be oggenc's option parser, then. Given a
stereo 22050hz input file, I can't seem to get oggenc to encode less
than 22kbits. The lowest bitrate it will allow on the commandline (for
22050hz/2ch input) is -b 30, but if you also add -M 1, it will generate
a file with an average bitrate of 22. -m and -M seem to be "hints",
and not absolute constraints. If you add -q -1 to the commandline, it
apparently ignores -b, -m and -M and creates a 33kbit output file.
There doesn't seem to be a way to get any lower than 22kbit, no matter
how hard you try, without dropping down to a 11Khz sample rate.
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Dan Nelson
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