Liviu
Mon, 02 Oct 2000 20:04:14 -0700
I was only wondering about the size of the wav's (not the binary contents). As noted in a parallel reply from Mark, the discrepancy had something to do with the VBR header being decoded into extraneous samples. Thank you, Liviu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zia Mazhar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] lame 3.87 encode-decode roundtrip > Hello Liviu, > > Once you encoded the wave into MP3, the originality is lost forever. The first > wave you'll get will have exactly the same quality of the MP3 of "CBR (-b256 -ms > -h)" and the second wave will have exactly the same quality of "VBR (-V1 -b128 > -mj -q1)". Think about it for some time, and it'll be clear to you why. > > - Zia > > > > > Liviu wrote: > > > 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 > > > > -- > > MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ ) > > -- > MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ ) > -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ )