Total Recoreder and Ogg Vorbis

weserveGod · 01-30-03, 02:29 PM

What is the advantage of Ogg Vorbis compression. I have used MPEG 3 with 16,000Hz Mono to record the daily radio broadcast by John McCarther and Grace to You. The half hour broadcast takes about 3.0MB using the above compression. Using the Ogg Vorbis I get about the same size. What settings should I use with Ogg Vorbis for the smallest file size and best quality.

maarten · 02-01-03, 11:27 AM

There is no "best" setting for an audiocompressor, it's just what's best for you :) if you encode the same file at the same Kbps (same filesize compared to time) the Ogg should sound better than the MP3, I think Ogg sounds better than MP3 so you can encode the Ogg on a lower Kbps and have the same soundquality as the higher Kbps MP3.

I tested some Ogg and MP3 and I experienced that a 192Kbps MP3 sounds a bit better than a 128Kbps Ogg and a bit worse than 160Kbps Ogg (I tested it on my €3000 car stereo ;))

but again: it depends what kind of music (or speech) you want to encode and your preference of sound quality, speech takes a lot less bandwith the music so there's not much to gain (% wise) when using Ogg instead of MP3.