OSNews > Thread > "RE[5]: ogg/vorbis?" by dylansmrjones

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 15th Dec 2005 00:53 UTC

This PDF compares the quality of various audio compression codecs run with various parameters. Overall, of all the audio encodings attempted which produced output at the same sample rate as the input, constant bitrate MP3's produced the highest quality files, exceeded only by variable bitrate MP3's at bitrates above 224kbps. In all cases AAC produced inferior quality results.

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RE[5]: ogg/vorbis?

by dylansmrjones on Thu 15th Dec 2005 20:59 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: ogg/vorbis?"

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2005-10-02

Ogg Vorbis is widespread and can be used in WMP, if you want to mess around with getting it to work. It doesn't support it out of the box, but nor does WinAMP actually.

It's already possible to use Ogg Vorbis in WMP and many other media players on windows. Just install the proper codec and spent some time on tweaking apps like WinAmp and WMP. It's not intuitive what needs to be changed here and there.

Ogg Vorbis is in very high demand though mp3 is still the ruler.

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RE[6]: ogg/vorbis?

by on Thu 15th Dec 2005 22:13 in reply to "RE[5]: ogg/vorbis?"

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Winamp does support vorbis through a plug-in that's installed by default during a full install of the player. Winamp has had this support since 2.8x or so.

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RE[7]: ogg/vorbis?

by dylansmrjones on Fri 16th Dec 2005 00:07 in reply to "RE[6]: ogg/vorbis?"

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Well it's there, but it didn't work for me on Win2K nor on Win2K3. It doesn't work out of the box. Some configuring of WinAMP is needed, incl. installing a codec utilizing DirectSound. The plug-in did not work on it's own, which was quite weird.

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