On 3/6/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Then we would, either via an automatic transcoding bot or via an upload enhancement to mediawiki automatically generate 40kbit/sec (dialup) and 96kbit/sec (broadband) versions from the lossless. These versions are what we'd link from our other projects.
According to your own reference, the threshold where most listeners cannot detect the difference between compressed and uncompressed is 128 kbit/s. This, then, should be the default quality threshold we serve, if we use lossless as a basis for conversion. I am opposed to accepting detectable quality degradation for marginal bandwidth savings. We're not YouTube; we should try to set a standard for video, audio and image quality.