Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Is the -b option broken?

[BBK]

Mark Taylor wrote:
> 
> Actually, this is a "feature".  If LAME detects analog silence,
> then it will ignore your minimum bitrate setting for those
> frames.  It was added to encode voice like stuff with a large
> percentage of silence.
> 
> You can disable it by changing all the occurances of
> "analog_silence=1" to "analog_silence=0" in quantize.c

Cool. Attached is a quick and dirty patch that adds a command
line option (-F) which strictly enforces the -b option. Applies
to version 3.70. Feel free to mangle as necessary.

Thanks for the quick response!

Zack

forcelowbit.patch.gz