[MPlayer-users] Best way to dump pcm to a wav and ogg, ogm support

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:42:12PM +0100, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> Hi.
> 
> > There is the better way to encode audio to ogg:
> > 1) mkfifo sound.wav
> 
> I advice against it as you cannot normalize the sound that way.

I advise against normalizing sound. Frequency-space codecs don't seem
too fond of waveforms that actually take on the peak values (+-32k);
when prenormalization is used, the vorbis encoder will often generate
a bitstream that's much lower quality than when encoding the original
input, and the decoded output will have samples that go over 1.0
(32k), resulting in nasty clipping. I could speculate about the
mathematics of why this happens, but it seems best just to avoid
normalization and adjust your volume knob as necessary.

Rich