Mark Taylor schrieb am Don, 20 Apr 2000:
> >
> > With the 3.80n-binary i get a lot of "**** informative message:
> > drain_pre/post: wasting bits=" especially with -V 2 and -V 1
> > combined with -B 320 or -V 0 alone, is this important or is it just
> > a message that hasent been removed ?
> >
> > Peter
>
> It just hasn't been removed. It tells how many bits are being wasted
> because the bit reservoir became too full. This happens a lot with
> high bitrate frames because of a strange buffer limitation in the MPEG spec.
> (I think most software players ignore this limitation, so in the future
> we might add a "relaxed" option which would not waste these bits).
... and we would choke many hardware players from playing LAME encoded mp3s!
I think, we shouldn't ignore the buffer considerations as stated in the ISO
documentation.
>
> Mark
Robert
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