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  1. What is the difference between Vorbis and Opus?

    Jan 15, 2018 · The main advantage of opus over vorbis is versatility imho. It can be used for very-low-bitrate applications, and due to encoding/decoding quickly and causally it is suitable (and in fact …

  2. What happens when converting between FLAC and Ogg / Vorbis?

    Apr 24, 2022 · In the case of Ogg/Vorbis, what operation is performed and what does the wave undergo in FLAC, what are the operations that are performed for the conversion of the wave?

  3. Is there a losslessly compressed audio file? - Sound Design Stack …

    Much more primitive than the DCT-based algorithms that mpeg or Vorbis employ. 2 (this isn't so much a footnote as a conclusion) I should still add that there's another consideration for audio processing: …

  4. Why is Constant Bit Rate (CBR) not favorable?

    Feb 20, 2021 · In fact, Vorbis and AAC do not support a truly constant CBR mode, instead offering a 'constrained' or 'managed' mode. On the other hand, The MP3 encoder LAME defaults to CBR 128 …

  5. What audio formats and codecs are used for YouTube videos?

    Jun 17, 2016 · I'm looking for an official YouTube page that lists all of the audio formats and codecs used for YouTube videos. I can only find information posted by unofficial sources without citing their …

  6. When does playing 320 Kbps MP3 instead of FLAC matter?

    Tolerable! Ogg/Vorbis faired decidedly better regarding the quality/bitrate ratio. So this kind of thing caught me on the wrong foot. As a rule, I'd stay away from any lossy encoding until you are finished …

  7. Opus vs MP3 (Size & Quality Comparison) - Sound Design Stack …

    Opus/AAC (standard AAC-LC)/Vorbis (.ogg) etc are superior to MP3 in terms of sound quality simply because they need less bit rate to achieve a certain standard of audio quality.

  8. How to make compressed audio loop without audible gap?

    I am trying to create an M4A (MP3) audio track which must loop without audible gap. I've heard that compressed audio is padded with silence at the end to fill up missing samples in a block of

  9. Bitrate and format (aac/mp3/ogg) for ripping CDs near-losslessly

    Apr 30, 2022 · Note that the "VP8"-based older webm format does not use Opus but Vorbis for its audio, meaning that it is less efficient than the "VP9" version. For most purposes 192kbps or even less …

  10. Status of Dirac Video, Speex audio, FLAC as tracks inside OGG container

    May 30, 2012 · Ogg is certainly alive and well, Speex and FLAC are in heavy use the world over, Dirac (which apparently was used to broadcast HD video from the Beijing Olympics) has split into two …