Date: 31 Jan 1999 23:08:20 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This is outrageous Message-ID: <xzpyamjgkob.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Eric Hodel's message of "Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:57:15 -0800" References: <36AF63DE.167EB0E7@i.am> <4.1.19990128215619.00a92d20@genesis.ispace.com> <xzpzp72qpwu.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <36B3F0BB.CD142ADE@seattleu.edu>
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Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> writes: > > > Mpeg-4 comes out later this year, I'll be interested to find what they > > > 'call' it.. But also if the file sizes are going to drop significantly or > > > not. Right now the average is about 4mb for a song at 128k/44khz/stereo. > > No, the file size is not going to drop. Ever wondered what that "128k" > > part up there means? furrfu. > I think it is bits per second, which equates to the sample rate. 128k > == 44100 kHz, I think. Absolutely not. It's the streaming rate. The compression algorithm is designed to yield a maximum of sound quality at a fixed bit rate; if the sound gets more "compressible" the quality goes up. Consequently, a higher bit rate will allow the encoder to discard less information, yielding better sound. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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