bond
4th April 2004, 15:04
lo guys :)
as some might already know there is not only 1 ogg vorbis encoder but some more (which are mainly forks of the official encoder with private tunings)
Now to find out which vorbis encoder is the best currently at 128kbps (and which will be used in rjamorims upcoming multiformat @128kbps test) there now is a vorbis listening test running and you are are invited to participate.
if you want to participate:
1) download the following 5 Encoders and place/unpack them in the same folder:
1. Vorbis 1.0.1 CVS (http://www.rarewares.org/files/ogg/oggenc2.3CVSMinGW.zip)
2. aoTuV 20040402 (http://www.geocities.jp/aoyoume/aotuv/test.html)
3. Modest Tuning beta 3 (http://homepage3.nifty.com/nyaochi/soft/dist/oggencmtb3.zip)
4. QKTune beta 3.2 (http://www.rarewares.org/quantumknot/oggencqk32.exe)
5. GT3b2 with HF reduction (http://www.rarewares.org/quantumknot/oggenchfr.exe)
2) download FLAC (http://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flac-1.1.0.zip) and OGGDEC (http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0.1/windows/vorbis-tools-1.0.1-win32.zip) and extract flac.exe and oggdec.exe to the same folder
3) download the samples you want to test from here (kindly hosted by ff123):
http://ff123.net/samples/ATrain.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/BachS1007.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/BeautySlept.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/Blackwater.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/FloorEssence.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/Layla.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/LifeShatters.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/LisztBMinor.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/MidnightVoyage.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/thear1.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/TheSource.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/Waiting.flac
4) copy paste the following code to a *.txt file:
flac -d -o sample.wav Layla.flac
oggenc23 -q4,25 sample.wav -o sample_101.ogg
encoder -q4 sample.wav
oggencmtb3 -q4 sample.wav -o sample_mtb3.ogg
oggencqk32 -q4,25 sample.wav -o sample_qk32.ogg
oggenchfr.exe -q4,25 sample.wav -o sample_gt3b2hfr.ogg
oggdec sample_101.ogg
oggdec sample.wav.ogg -o sample_aotuv.wav
oggdec sample_mtb3.ogg
oggdec sample_qk32.ogg
oggdec sample_gt3b2hfr.ogg
del sample_101.ogg
del sample.wav.ogg
del sample_mtb3.ogg
del sample_qk32.ogg
del sample_gt3b2hfr.ogg5) VERY IMPORTANT: if you live in the us or japan replace the "-q4,25" with "-q4.25", if you live in europe (excluding britain) leave it as is, otherwise you will only encode with "-q4", which wouldnt be good
6) replace "layla.flac" with the actual name of the file you want to test
7) rename your *.txt to *.bat and execute it (now the listening samples will get prepared for testing)
8) download the ABC-HR (http://ff123.net/abchr/abchrBinary0.9b.zip) listening test tool
9) open it and go to "file -> setup test", under "orig wav" open the sample.wav you have on your disc now, under "wav" the other .wav files (dont care about offset)
10) do your listening test and send in the results till april 10th to:
s DOT so AT griffith DOT edu DOT au
the original (and more detailed) instructions on how to participate are available here (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showtopic=20389&)
The test will run until April 10th
enjoy :)
as some might already know there is not only 1 ogg vorbis encoder but some more (which are mainly forks of the official encoder with private tunings)
Now to find out which vorbis encoder is the best currently at 128kbps (and which will be used in rjamorims upcoming multiformat @128kbps test) there now is a vorbis listening test running and you are are invited to participate.
if you want to participate:
1) download the following 5 Encoders and place/unpack them in the same folder:
1. Vorbis 1.0.1 CVS (http://www.rarewares.org/files/ogg/oggenc2.3CVSMinGW.zip)
2. aoTuV 20040402 (http://www.geocities.jp/aoyoume/aotuv/test.html)
3. Modest Tuning beta 3 (http://homepage3.nifty.com/nyaochi/soft/dist/oggencmtb3.zip)
4. QKTune beta 3.2 (http://www.rarewares.org/quantumknot/oggencqk32.exe)
5. GT3b2 with HF reduction (http://www.rarewares.org/quantumknot/oggenchfr.exe)
2) download FLAC (http://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flac-1.1.0.zip) and OGGDEC (http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0.1/windows/vorbis-tools-1.0.1-win32.zip) and extract flac.exe and oggdec.exe to the same folder
3) download the samples you want to test from here (kindly hosted by ff123):
http://ff123.net/samples/ATrain.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/BachS1007.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/BeautySlept.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/Blackwater.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/FloorEssence.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/Layla.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/LifeShatters.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/LisztBMinor.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/MidnightVoyage.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/thear1.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/TheSource.flac
http://ff123.net/samples/Waiting.flac
4) copy paste the following code to a *.txt file:
flac -d -o sample.wav Layla.flac
oggenc23 -q4,25 sample.wav -o sample_101.ogg
encoder -q4 sample.wav
oggencmtb3 -q4 sample.wav -o sample_mtb3.ogg
oggencqk32 -q4,25 sample.wav -o sample_qk32.ogg
oggenchfr.exe -q4,25 sample.wav -o sample_gt3b2hfr.ogg
oggdec sample_101.ogg
oggdec sample.wav.ogg -o sample_aotuv.wav
oggdec sample_mtb3.ogg
oggdec sample_qk32.ogg
oggdec sample_gt3b2hfr.ogg
del sample_101.ogg
del sample.wav.ogg
del sample_mtb3.ogg
del sample_qk32.ogg
del sample_gt3b2hfr.ogg5) VERY IMPORTANT: if you live in the us or japan replace the "-q4,25" with "-q4.25", if you live in europe (excluding britain) leave it as is, otherwise you will only encode with "-q4", which wouldnt be good
6) replace "layla.flac" with the actual name of the file you want to test
7) rename your *.txt to *.bat and execute it (now the listening samples will get prepared for testing)
8) download the ABC-HR (http://ff123.net/abchr/abchrBinary0.9b.zip) listening test tool
9) open it and go to "file -> setup test", under "orig wav" open the sample.wav you have on your disc now, under "wav" the other .wav files (dont care about offset)
10) do your listening test and send in the results till april 10th to:
s DOT so AT griffith DOT edu DOT au
the original (and more detailed) instructions on how to participate are available here (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showtopic=20389&)
The test will run until April 10th
enjoy :)