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 page for more details.
Links
- aoTuV's home page.
- Lancer: BlackSword's accelerated version of aoTuV binaries, courtesy of the Ogg Vorbis Acceleration Project
- How to prounounce "aoTuV"
- How to compile aoTuV under Linux: Compiling aoTuV