[BC] Another Shoe drops

[Goran Tomas]

--- At 06.05.2005.w 13:41, Fred Gleason wrote: ---
>On Friday 06 May 2005 14:01,  Steve Vestergaard wrote:
> > The files are transmitted using Og Vorbis, but at an extremely high
> > bitrate (starting at 750 and scaling up as high as needed).  The result
> > is effectively lossless compression (it is lossy, but the losses are out
> > of the range of hearing).
>
>It's not that I dislike OggVorbis (I don't.  In fact, it's a darn elegant
>piece of work), but it *is* lossy, and as such it has no place so close to
>the top of the distribution chain.  The irony is, if they wanted a free codec
>that is truly lossless, there *is* one!  See:
>
>         http://flac.sourceforge.net/


Just what I wanted to mention... Why don't they just use true lossless 
algorithm? They can get almost 50% size reduction (at least 30% easily) 
with no quality loss what-so-ever!


Regards,
Goran Tomas