<package name="bonk" project="Multimedia">

  <title>A lossy/lossless audio coder</title>

  <description>Bonk is a high quality audio compression program. It can operate

in either lossless or lossy mode. In lossless mode, the exact

original WAV file can be recovered from the compressed file. In

lossy mode, some information is discarded in the compressed file,

yielding a much higher compression ratio. The information

discarded is perceptually unimportant, and the result should be

a *perceptually* lossless encoding. Bonk can compress some types

of sounds more than others, so the actual bit-rate achieved varies.

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In lossy mode, it can compress some types of sound to as low as

95 kbps (a compression ration of 14:1) while maintaining

perceptually lossless CD quality stereo. In general, the

compression ratio achieved by Bonk is slightly higher than that

achieved using the more common MP3 format, for equivalent sound

quality. In particular it copes with transients (eg clapping,

drum beats) better. Performance on purely tonal sound is roughly

equivalent to MP3.

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In lossless mode the compression ratio is typically around 2:1.

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</description>

  <person userid="pbleser" role="bugowner"/>

  <person userid="pbleser" role="maintainer"/>

  <url>http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/bonk/</url>

</package>

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