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Vorbis does this, almost

Posted Aug 28, 2008 8:48 UTC (Thu) by dion (subscriber, #2764)
In reply to: FLAC by forthy
Parent article: Firefox to support Theora video

As far as I rememer Ogg Vorbis streams can drop quality simply by dropping bits from the stream.

So it should be entirely possible to create a high-bandwidth Vorbis stream and dynamically drop quality in the web server for each client as it streams.

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