Re: [MP3 ENCODER] mid/side stereo at 160kbs?

[Anonymous]

> 
> For vbr, I don't think we should forbid js for 160k and higher frames. It
> would produce some bigger files.
> Moreover, it would nearly forbid 160k in vbr:
> imagine 128k is not enough. So the encoder switch to 160k. But at 160k, it
> would switch to regular stereo. Switching to regular stereo, 160k might
> probably not be enough, so we'll use 192k.
> Using this, 160 would be only rarely used, and this is perhaps not the best
> idea.
> 

Hi Gabriel,

You had me convinced, but I checked a few files at random with

lame -b 32 -v -V 0 

with and without the 160kbs jstereo switch.  The difference was
sometimes larger, sometimes smaller, but never by more than 1%.  
So given that the filesizes will be the same, what's your opinion
of this feature?




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