AoTuV

Abbreviation for Aoyumi's Tuned Vorbis; it is third-party development/tuning of the Vorbis encoding algorithm.

aoTuV versions improves significantly on Vorbis quality: Most people agree aoTuV beta 4 achieves transparency at -q 5.

The latest version is aoTuV beta 4.51. It improves further on low bit-rate quality, to such extent that some reports -q 1 (approx. 80 kbps) is good enough for streaming.

See Recommended Ogg Vorbis for more details.

See also aoTuV's home page.

BlackSword of the Ogg Vorbis Acceleration Project provides accelerated versions of aoTuV binaries, codenamed Lancer.

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