Hi all, mark taylor had to say... > I've made a lot of progress working with LAME recently, adding a much > improved psycho acoustic model and an optional graphical frame > analyzer (screenshots on the web page). Mike Cheng has graciously > allowed me to release my enhanced version as LAME 3.0. Actually having a job this year means I don't have time to work on LAME much anymore, and I'm glad that Mark has taken up the challenge. He's done some really good work with the buggy ISO model and psychoacoustics. LAME wasn't just my work however. I will try to put together a comprehensive list of people who have helped over the *years*. > Here is the "announcement". I'm sending this everywhere I can think > of - I'm interested to see if FhG thinks poorly of the open source, > dist10 patch distribution model! Mirror some of the files if you have the space on your web page... > LAME (LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder) is a patch for the ISO demonstration > source MP3 encoder which increases its speed by a factor of 5. New to LAME 2.1 was about 5 times faster than the ISO, but with the extra calculations needed for ms_stereo etc, the speedup may be reduced. YMMV > LAME 3.0 is a much improved psycho-acoustic model (GPSYCHO) and a > graphical frame analyzer (MP3x). The graphical frame analyzer is great! Allows a visual, quantifiable way of comparing encoded files - even if you don't have golden ears (which I don't) later mike PS i think a priority for lame will be to test it on many platforms and maybe try for a nobrainer install routine so even non-unix-weenies can try it.
