0002832: Downgrade vocal encoding? - The Dark Mod Bugtracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0002832	The Dark Mod	Sound	public	05.08.2011 13:48	30.10.2011 20:51

Reporter	Springheel	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	normal	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	suspended	Resolution	open
Product Version	TDM 1.06

Summary	0002832: Downgrade vocal encoding?
Description	"On my old machine with 1.5 GB of RAM, I re-encoded all of the vocals to 48 kbps/22 KHz to decrease RAM usage. This is how most games do it, because 44 KHz isn't much different than 22 when it comes to a human voice recording. If you look in the Doom 3 pack files, you see that their vocals are about 30 Kbps." This is worth looking at. No point in having bloat if there really is no difference, and maps that use lots of different vocals are loading literally thousands of .ogg files.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
05.08.2011 13:48	Springheel	New Issue
05.08.2011 13:48	Springheel	Status	new => assigned
05.08.2011 13:48	Springheel	Assigned To	=> Springheel
22.10.2011 19:08	Springheel	Note Added: 0004097
22.10.2011 19:08	Springheel	Status	assigned => suspended
30.10.2011 20:51	Springheel	Assigned To	Springheel =>

Springheel 22.10.2011 19:08 administrator ~0004097	I looked into this and it only seems to shave 1/3 off the size of the set, at most. Since most of the vocal sets are less than 100MB each, I can't be bothered to try tracking down the original .wavs and reconverting them. Someone else is welcome to take this on if they like.