[MPlayer-users] RFC: docs update for "how to create a high quality DVD rip"

[Alexei Khlebnikov]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 05:07:07 -0700
rcooley <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:

R> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:37:37 +0300
R> Alexei Khlebnikov <a.khlebnikau at sam-solutions.net> wrote:
R> 
R> > In my opinion, tests must be real, because the life is too real. 
R> 
R> That's fine and all, but the original subject is how Hans du Plooy
R> <hdp at webmail.co.za> thinks 96k Vorbis audio sounds lowsy next
R> to 192k AC3.
R> 
R> Then it twisted-off into ivanova <flamingivanova at punkass.com> claiming
R> that MP3 sounded as good as Vorbis, and used the test as "proof".
R> 
R> Perhaps real-world tests are better, perhaps they are not, it really
R> doesn't matter one bit, because the issue here is NOT about how good a
R> codec sounds on crappy equpiment.  Good test, bad test, whatever you
R> believe, it is a very bad test in this context...

Original subject was about an article about video encoding. :)
The discussion was gone away mant messages ago. :)

I argued only against the opinion "tests must be made in studio".

As to the sound encoding, I agree that 96k is probably too little,
but 112 or 128 kbps vorbis should be enough for movies without lot
of music, for slightly-above-average home user. When music is the
important part of the movie, e.g. in LOTR, I agree, 192kbps is needed.