Re: [MP3 ENCODER] lame 3.87 encode-decode roundtrip

[Mark Taylor]

> 
> Please pardon the question if naive but I couldn't find the answer
> elsewhere...
> 
> I encode the same .wav to 2 different .mp3's - first one CBR (-b256 -ms -h),
> second one VBR (-V1 -b128 -mj -q1).
> Then I decode (--decode) the 2 .mp3's back, and the resulting .wav's have
> different sizes, both of them different from the original one.
> 
> Is this expected behaviour?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Liviu
> 
> 

The docoded files should both be the same size, and they should
both be a little larger than the original wav.  
Can you try encoding the VBR file with the -t option?
lame --decode may decode the Xing VBR header into 1152 samples
of padding.

Mark
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