Are there any arguments or proofs that OGG is really better than MP3?

[yosemite]

hi,


dont missunderstand me, I've nothing against OGG, but is it really better than other audio-standards, like MP3?

Are there any arguments for that?
On the OGG homepage are (u can say) "assertions" about OGG, but are they true?

Where are the real arguments for these assertions?

[Nic]

Yosemite I don't know why you make threads like this....oh well.

Ogg at lower bitrates (<128kbit) is better than MP3, its so obvious that any one can hear it.

At higher bitrates it is also better (IMHO), although not as good as MPC & it gets hard to tell now, with Dibrom's great presets.

Also Ogg can do multiple channels (MP3 is limited to 1 or 2)

The only real contender to Ogg for us video encoders is AAC, but that being a reality is a little way off yet....

-Nic

[DSPguru]

Originally posted by Nic
Also Ogg can do multiple channels (MP3 is limited to 1 or 2)hi nic,
you know, there iZ a defention of mp3 mutlichannel..

Dg.

[Nic]

Yup, I'd heard of it...but I didn't want to over complicate matters :)

-Nic

[DSPguru]

;)

[Neo Neko]

I might be nit-picking here but we are mincing terms. OGG is a file format MP3 is the MPEG1 layer 3 compression scheme. Two very different and uncomparrable things. What you are speaking of here is Vorbis. I have to catch myself every once in a while to keep from calling it just OGG. Because it is not. It is due to peoples misconception on this level that many people see a futile need to rename an OGG stream with embedded video to *.ogm.


Oh yeah btw. Vorbis is better than MP3.