AoTuV

aoTuV

aoTuV is an 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 5 (which is actually a re-branded aoTuV beta 4.51 after undergoing extensive peer review). 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