Hydrogenaudio Forums > Vorbis (Experimental) Bitrate Peeler Available

PatchWorKs

Apr 1 2003, 03:43

From the last Ogg Traffic

QUOTE

Just when I wanted to submit this Ogg Traffic, Segher informed me that he has finished a new experimental bitrate peeler. (A bitrate peeler is a tool that reduces a Vorbis file to a smaller bitrate without decoding and reencoding.)

You can read his announcement and download the code here. Please note that the code is experimental. Give it a whirl and let Segher know if you have any problems.

john33

Apr 1 2003, 04:03

QUOTE(PatchWorKs @ Apr 1 2003 - 09:43 AM)

From the last Ogg Traffic

QUOTE

Just when I wanted to submit this Ogg Traffic, Segher informed me that he has finished a new experimental bitrate peeler. (A bitrate peeler is a tool that reduces a Vorbis file to a smaller bitrate without decoding and reencoding.)

You can read his announcement and download the code here. Please note that the code is experimental. Give it a whirl and let Segher know if you have any problems.

Be aware that there are indications that this is an April Fool's prank!!

However, I'll take a closer look before making any final judgement.

JohnV

Apr 1 2003, 04:10

Obviously it is a prank, although both the Ogg Traffic and the message itself are dated 31st March.

Gabriel

Apr 1 2003, 04:26

Nice try...I even looked at the source...

emtee

Apr 1 2003, 04:45

a prank?

fairway

Apr 1 2003, 06:36

yup

YinYang

Apr 2 2003, 03:16

On the Vorbis mailing list Segher has denied that it is an april fools prank. Guess it's valid.

JohnV

Apr 2 2003, 03:58

QUOTE(YinYang @ Apr 2 2003 - 12:16 PM)

On the Vorbis mailing list Segher has denied that it is an april fools prank. Guess it's valid.

Where? I don't see him denying that it's a prank.

Edit: For those who still wonder: this is a confirmed joke.

S_O

Apr 2 2003, 05:01

I just compiled the source (wondered why it is so small) and it could compiled with no problem. I even hat to link ogg library. Then I modified to read/write files from harddisk, and it worked, but the output file is only 20KB and a neraly empty ogg-file. It can be decoded by oggdec, but the output wav is invalid. Seems that it peels a bit too much.

JohnV

Apr 2 2003, 05:16

QUOTE(S_O @ Apr 2 2003 - 02:01 PM)

I just compiled the source (wondered why it is so small) and it could compiled with no problem. I even hat to link ogg library. Then I modified to read/write files from harddisk, and it worked, but the output file is only 20KB and a neraly empty ogg-file. It can be decoded by oggdec, but the output wav is invalid. Seems that it peels a bit too much.

Well.. at least somebody was fooled..

YinYang

Apr 2 2003, 12:26

QUOTE(JohnV @ Apr 2 2003 - 11:58 AM)

Where? I don't see him denying that it's a prank.

Edit: For those who still wonder: this is a confirmed joke.

Oups.

You're right. Seems I misinterpreted this post.

http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/200304/0016.html

Mac

Apr 2 2003, 15:22

Assholes. I wanted to use that!

JohnV

Apr 2 2003, 15:52

QUOTE(Mac @ Apr 3 2003 - 12:22 AM)

Assholes. I wanted to use that!

Agree.. Developers should use their time coding the actual thing, instead of wasting time for stupid jokes like these (which nobody finds funny anyway, because everybody is really waiting for the bitrate peeling), not to mention it was posted on a wrong day, on March 31.

floyd

Apr 2 2003, 16:56

yeah, I'm not too sure whats funny about this...

vinnie97

Apr 2 2003, 22:52

It's funny to the geekiest types among us.

Garf

Apr 3 2003, 01:52

http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/20...00304/0009.html

It does work (or better, can be made to work), but badly, just like the previous peeler.