seanadams Wrote: > Right - VBR is always better than CBR except in very special "legacy" > circumstances. The only time I could imagine CBR being useful is if you > have some fixed-rate transmission speed (eg an ISDN line or satellite > link) feeding a decoder with a _very_ small buffer (ie just a couple > mp3 frames). I'm not quite sure we're talking about exactly the same thing. See:
http://lame.sourceforge.net/doc/html/modes.html Unless you're refering to ABR when you say "VBR". :-) I can't think of any other reason to use 'Bitrate Limiting' in the player settings other than to control the bandwidth used by the stream, as in the example you give. Both CBR and ABR would accomplish this, while VBR would not. I stream music that is stored as FLAC, transcoded to MP3 over a VPN to my computer at work. In order to keep from eating up a significant portion of our 1.5 Mbps connection at work I limit the bitrate of the stream to 128 kbps. The advantage to ABR is better audio quality at a fixed streaming rate. My understanding is that VBR can give even better audio quality for a particular file size, but since the target is a quality level (0 to 9) then the file size (stream rate) is unpredictable and depends on the material being encoded. -- JJZolx Jim _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
