C:\cdexbeta>lame388.exe --abr 193 -h -mj -h -b 64 d:\01.wav 01mj.mp3 LAME version 3.88 MMX (beta 1, Mar 26 2001) (http://www.mp3dev.org/) (Win32 binaries from http://dkutsanov.chat.ru/) CPU features: i387, MMX (ASM used), SIMD Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 21517 Hz - 22050 Hz Encoding d:\01.wav to 01mj.mp3 Encoding as 44.1 kHz average 193 kbps j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (7.4x) qval=2 Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA 26732/26733 (100%)| 1:55/ 1:55| 1:55/ 1:55| 6.0630x| 0:00 64 [ 100] % 80 [ 1] * 96 [ 0] 112 [ 0] 128 [ 4] * 160 [ 1533] %**** 192 [22161] %%**************************************************************** 224 [ 2375] %******* 256 [ 507] %* 320 [ 51] % average: 194.0 kbps LR: 631 (2.360%) MS: 26101 (97.64%) C:\cdexbeta>lame388.exe --abr 193 -h -ms -h -b 64 d:\01.wav 01ms.mp3 LAME version 3.88 MMX (beta 1, Mar 26 2001) (http://www.mp3dev.org/) (Win32 binaries from http://dkutsanov.chat.ru/) CPU features: i387, MMX (ASM used), SIMD Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 19383 Hz - 19916 Hz Encoding d:\01.wav to 01ms.mp3 Encoding as 44.1 kHz average 193 kbps stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (7.4x) qval=2 Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA 26732/26733 (100%)| 1:41/ 1:41| 1:41/ 1:41| 6.9308x| 0:00 64 [ 101] % 80 [ 0] 96 [ 0] 112 [ 0] 128 [ 2] % 160 [ 1238] %%%% 192 [21813] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 224 [ 3033] %%%%%%%%%% 256 [ 452] %% 320 [ 93] % average: 195.2 kbps LR: 26732 (100.0%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- look at the transition bands, the mj variant seems to be way too high, someone please comment .... btw, i'm not quite sure if i should use -ms or -mj with those encoder setting.... ms is a little faster ... please comment on that too :) -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list archive is at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mp3encoder%40minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/