What Ogg Vorbis encoder would you like to see in a listening test?, oggdropXPd 1.9.0 vs. oggenc2.85 (Either libVorbis v1.2.3 aoTuVb5.7) Options

[ezlez]

I'm going to conduct a multi-format listening test very soon, and I need only one encoder per format. I'm deciding between oggdropXPd 1.9.0 vs. oggenc2.85 (Either libVorbis v1.2.3 aoTuVb5.7), and I wanted on what your thoughts are, since I don't have much experience with Ogg Vorbis. All the encoders are coming from Rarewares.org.

[NullC]

If someone wants to do some adventurous testing. Try out FFvorbis which is the vorbis encoder internal to ffmpeg. It generally produces horrific results[1]. It is suddenly interesting because a lot of people will be using ffmpeg to transcode into webm and some people seem to have a hard time believing that the ffmpeg encoder sounds worse than libvorbis or aoTuV. Some independent results might go a long way towards saving the world from billions of files encoded with that encoder.



[1] No blind testing is really required, for example: http://myrandomnode.dyndns.org:8080/~gmaxwell/fffail/new01/ and http://myrandomnode.dyndns.org:8080/~gmaxwell/fffail/new02/