[MPlayer-users] Vorbis

[Rolf Ernst]

On 6/21/2010 3:56 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Nicolas George<nicolas.george<at>  normalesup.org>  writes:
>
>    
>>> Does anybody know how to set vorbis bitrate encoding options (lavcopts
>>> acodec=vorbis:abitrate=xxx is ignored). I consistently get ~55 kbps
>>> audio which sucks.
>>>        
>> You can try aq=5.
>>
>> But you do not want to do that anyway: acodec=vorbis select the Vorbis
>> encoder built into libavcodec, not the wrapper for Xiph's libvorbisenc. And
>> this encoder is not good at all, it is only a proof of concept until someone
>> undertakes to implement all necessary quality enhancements.
>>      
> I don't disagree, but it should be added that a bug was fixed lately and
> somebody claimed that the quality of the encoder isn't so bad (if you can live
> with aq instead of abitrate).
>
> Carl Eugen
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I have modified my GUI to write the audio and convert separately via 
Oggenc. Not the most elegant approach but as it sounds the most reliable.

/re