[MEncoder-users] Re: Why use TOOLS/calcbpp.pl and scale ?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 3/2/06, Hynek Schlawack <hs+mencoder at ox.cx> wrote:
> "Guillaume POIRIER" <poirierg at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> >> So do I if it is 5.1, otherwise I use vorbis.
> >> > I'd like to use vorbis, which sounds better than MP3 at similar bitrates
> >> > 99% of the time, but unfortunately that 1% of the time, it has
> >> > incredibly disgusting sounding artifacts.
> >> > Try something like the sounds of the cannonballs screeching through the
> >> > air in Gettysburg, or the metallic sounds of the hull being compressed
> >> > and the engine noise in Das Boot.  They sound like they're being played
> >> > back through a tin can... underwater.
> >> How about AAC? Does it also have these artifacts?
> > It's all a matter of implementation. Maybe, maybe not, as there's
> > nothing in the norm that makes either Vorbis or AAC _have to_ behave
> > bad in such cases.
>
> Yeah, my question was misleading (and grammatically wrong ;)).
>
> It should have been: "How about a recent FAAC? Does it also has these
> artifacts?"

I honestly don't know. The best if to check for yourself. I guess it's
still in general worse than vorbis (I haven't tried myself, but older
blind tests said that FAAC was worse), but _maybe_ in the cases where
vorbis screws, FAAC doesn't screw as much.

But I have never tried FAAC, so just don't trust me on that :)

Guillaume
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