On Tuesday 06 July 2004 14.35, Jan Depner wrote: > That sets the nominal bitrate. What you are seeing is the actual > bitrate for sections that don't need to be encoded at 128. In other > places it will go above 128. Play your .ogg on xmms and watch the > bitrate display. I don't use the -b switch when I encode. I normally > just use -q 5. > > Jan > > On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 04:19, Atte Andr? Jensen wrote: > > I'm trying out oggenc under linux/unstable, but I'm confused! Using > > "oggenc -b 128" ends with a file with bitrate around 60-70 acording the > > the report printed by oggenc... If I remember correctly vorbis does not have a constant bitrate option. The -b is probably used only for "hinting" at which bitrate you wish to have. It could very well be as Jan suggests, it will get higher after a while, or it's simply a bug. Anyway you are probably better of using the -q switch. For your information. Testing done lately http://www.rjamorim.com/test/multiformat128/results.html suggests that the alternative vorbis encoder http://www.geocities.jp/aoyoume/aotuv/ gives superior quality (to the standard encoder, and pretty much anything else). /Robert -- http://spamatica.se/music/
