Talk:Bit rate
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could someone add bitrate info for MPEG? and explain that same bitrates dont have to mean same quality - cd has bitrate of 174kbytes/s, encoded to MusePack or OggVorbis could have almost the same quality in 1/10 size. Similar with mpeg vs divx.
could someone explain what bitrate means in terms of audio recordings? -- Tarquin 13:18, 12 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Could someone explain the meaning of the phrase "The bitrate shows how large the quantity of the stored bits per second of music is." Talk about obtuse phrasing! Dostal 21:11, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Bitrates
This section could do with some work. Most, other than marketers, don't consider 128k to provide CD quality, irrespective of codec. Ok, there is the language 'minimum possible'; but then on the other hand, it gives 8Mbit/s as the 'minimum possible' for DVD quality, when this is more like the _maximum_ possible DVD bitrate (and 'DVD quality' can arguably be had for far less with a more efficient codec such as MPEG-4). Blorg 16:37, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- A lot of the figures, especially in the Video section, were intended to be ballpark values. If you know of more accurate lower bounds, feel free to change them. I really don't want this article get involved in silly "CD quality" flamewars, so how about specifying that "Foo quality" means "more than 50% of casual listeners do not consider the quality to be inferior to Foo". Obviously if you're an expert with brilliant equipment and you know precisely what to listen for, you will be able to tell a difference whatever the bitrate, but that's really not the point. [[User:Smyth|– Smyth]] 19:24, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)