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Misc. => Recycle Bin => Topic started by: Natural on 2002-11-25 14:45:44

Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Natural on 2002-11-25 14:45:44
sorry, I'm poor english

Source WAV file is test.wav of RMAA 4.2...

mp3 -> lameDropXP 3.93 (--alt insane)
ogg  -> oggDropXP (q=10)

Results (http://hifipc.net/Comparison.zip)

ogg is +0.5db gain in 20hz...

mp3 is very nearing source file..
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Frank Bicking on 2002-11-25 14:49:00
Seems to be useless, because these graphs don't tell you anything about the quality. I doubt you can hear any difference. And please remember that Ogg Vorbis wasn't optimized that much at high bitrates yet.
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: kjoonlee on 2002-11-25 15:12:28
Natural: graphs aren't taken very seriously here. Using graphs to judge quality is considered very dangerous and erroneous.

if you want my take, see here (in Korean) (http://www.avbest.com/community/board.htm?code=usermini&function=read&no=1996&keyword=&srh=&page=2).

I'm Gum-Eun-Hae.
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Benjamin Lebsanft on 2002-11-25 15:13:49
yeah, and there is a reason for that. graphs show how music looks but our ear judge what they hear, not what the (can't) see!
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Natural on 2002-11-25 15:18:26
No..
mp3 is encord near source...
I heard ogg is gain Bass sometimes..
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: kjoonlee on 2002-11-25 15:28:26
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No..
mp3 is encord near source...
I heard ogg is gain Bass sometimes..

Ah, but can you hear it yourself?

Well, the rules here are to provide short samples. Then people can try encoding it themselves.
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Natural on 2002-11-25 15:38:18
[span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%']Graph is very important.[/span]

files (http://hifipc.net/test.zip)
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: kjoonlee on 2002-11-25 15:39:43
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Graph is very important.

no, ears are more important.

sori-neun gwi-ro deud-neun geo-ji, noon-eu-ro bo-shi-neun geo-ga anibnida.
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Benjamin Lebsanft on 2002-11-25 15:49:48
how about:
don't feed the troll ?
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Frank Bicking on 2002-11-25 15:53:13
If you're not able to offer any evidence that you can hear the differences, well... please ****

okay, won't feed it
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: kjoonlee on 2002-11-25 15:55:01
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how about:
don't feed the troll ?

Benjamin: I'm not sure if he (Natural) recognizes me, but I recognize him. From what I gather he's not a troll, he's not malevolent or twisted, in fact he intends to do good, if I'm not mistaken.

Natural: How about a real sample of music, not noise? That will help a lot more.
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Sachankara on 2002-11-25 15:58:59
Haha... *lol* Funny thread...

(I agree with Garf...  Graphs shows nothing about the quality in psychoacustial compressed formats, except perhaps frequency cutoffs... But that's it... It has been told thousands of times already... )
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: MadiZone on 2002-11-25 16:16:30
ROFLMAO @ Garf 
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Benjamin Lebsanft on 2002-11-25 17:14:59
but why is he still claiming what garf called bullshit if he was proven wrong ?
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: mvdb on 2002-11-25 17:38:03
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[span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%']Graph is very important.[/span]

hmmm maybe you should compress your beautiful graphs with JPG or PNG. These formats give excellent quality and take far less space than MP3s or Ogg Vorbis files  Have phun watching your music 
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: guruboolez on 2002-11-25 18:15:13
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[span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%']Graph is very important.[/span]

OK, and now, assume it :


[span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%']LAME --alt-preset extreme : [/span]

http://membres.lycos.fr/guruboolez/AUDIO/t..._02/mp3-wav.gif (http://membres.lycos.fr/guruboolez/AUDIO/test_02/mp3-wav.gif)

[span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%']Ogg Vorbis 1.0 -q7[/span]

http://membres.lycos.fr/guruboolez/AUDIO/t...02/ogg7-wav.gif (http://membres.lycos.fr/guruboolez/AUDIO/test_02/ogg7-wav.gif)


Mp3 is very nice on pre-echo. Very high resolution, isn't it ? 
[don't flame me too ; theses graphs were made in order to illustrate (and only illustrate) a very tiring listening test]
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: sven_Bent on 2002-11-25 18:49:30
a total worthless test

I dont take a pivtures and conveter it to raw pcm and an then make a playback test to hear wich lossy pictures formas is better then the order by my ears.
Why should i do the opposite.
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: ManyFaces on 2002-11-25 19:25:27
...and you all are forgotting something:

...if you convert from mp3 to jpg...
*or*
...you convert from ogg to jpg...

...you are using two different lossy format, and thus *transcoding*...

...and transcoding is *death* 

...you can't expect not to loose quality while transcoding 

...or is it?      lmao!

[Edit]: Sorry, I couldn't resist
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: MadiZone on 2002-11-25 20:49:47
GIF is like the ADPCM of digital images.
GIF is lossless, but only supports up to 256 colors. And since most screenshots of nice graphs are in 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit color, there is a loss in color precision.
But no phony artifacts.

I noticed how the graphics of the music were animated... is this what we call a musicvideo?
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Dibrom on 2002-11-25 21:05:22
 Wow.. I've never seen such colorful posts before...

Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: SK1 on 2002-11-25 21:51:48
"...or is it?  lmao!"
LMAO too ...
And liked the post by Garf, righton..
ooh look at all the pretty colors!
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: KikeG on 2002-11-26 08:30:01
That graphs are interesting, but in practice mostly useless. Note that those kind of tests are designed to stress 'dumb' linear devices, not psychoacoustic encoders. For one side, in real world, those codecs in some cases will perform worse with real music than with these tests signals, and in other cases better, so the information you can extract from the tests is not useful. Also, in case of these type of encoders, this results are not indicative of how well will the codecs sound in practice with real music, because they 'adapt' intelligently to the music and human hearing. For this particular settings, I'd say they will sound very good in most cases, independently from the results you get from RMAA.

Even if the codecs were 'dumb' devices and the results were indicative of the quality, the differences between both encoders in the test are negligible and very likely would not be audible in practice.
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: David Nordin on 2002-11-26 10:44:23
Graphs and spectrograms can be very useful, ofcourse, but also given: In the right context.
As Garf pointed out: Spectrograms are NOT useful with Psychoacoustic codec.
There's nothing to prove, nothing to discuss.
If you believe otherwize you need education.

(btw. excellent clarification Garf    )
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Natural on 2002-11-26 14:51:38
I'm testing Fhg-lame...
It's interesting...

Fhg -> encoder by Cool edit Pro 2.0 320kbps CBR
lame -> lameDropXP 3.93a 320 CBR(insane)

decoder -> lamedropXP

fhg is high distortion....

I'm poor english..

files (http://hifipc.net/Comparison(lame-fhg).zip)
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Kblood on 2002-11-26 14:58:20
Natural, please stop using graphs for comparing psychoacoustical encoders.

You have been told they are not useful.

You have been told it even in Korean.

And also, I just noticed it: C-Media? Not exactly the best soundcard, is it?

Your tests are simply wrong.

Use your ears, not your eyes, to judge quality of sound.
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Benjamin Lebsanft on 2002-11-26 15:08:19
He doesn't WANT to understand it
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: kjoonlee on 2002-11-26 15:26:01
I've lost all hope. And now I'm getting the impression that Natural IS a troll. *sigh* I'm easy to troll, right? : )
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: marteataca on 2002-11-26 17:59:35
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hmmm maybe you should compress your beautiful graphs with JPG or PNG.

I think u should use png, cause its lossless 

but u can go with a lossy format like jpg, cause I doubt u would pass in a blid test anyway... B) 
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: ErikS on 2002-12-07 00:43:38
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Bullshit.

Show me a clip where Ogg fails on bass resolution.

Just to be an ass 

It _had_ trouble with bass on at least one clip I know about. Try one of the betas on this clip (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d99papa/files/bassrumbledemo.wav). But since RC2 it's fine.
Title: [TOS #8] mp3-ogg (RMAA test)
Post by: Garf on 2002-12-07 08:21:47
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Just to be an ass  

It _had_ trouble with bass on at least one clip I know about. Try one of the betas on this clip (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d99papa/files/bassrumbledemo.wav). But since RC2 it's fine.

Ok, ok, show me a clip where 1.0 fails on bass...

RC2 had bass fixes.