> 1. LAME jstereo sometimes turns on mid/side stereo when it should not.
> 2. FhG encoder, which is unquestionably the highest quality, doesn't
> appear to use jstereo at 160kbs and higher.
So if we want to drop joint-stereo from 160k because of the quality, why
doing it only from 160k in case of vbr?
It's obvious that's using cbr, we must use joint-stereo for lower bitrates
than 160k. But in case of vbr, if we decide to drop joint-stereo because the
encoder does not always do the best choice, I personnaly think that it's
quite illogical to drop it only from 160. The encoder sometimes does some
wrong choices, but it also does them at lower than 160k. So if we want to
drop joint-stereo in vbr, to be perfectly logical, we must do it for all
frames, whatever the bitrate. This is quite the same as using the -m s
switch. So if we got some problems with joint-stereo switching, why not
doing -m s the default setting for vbr?
Of course, the best solution would be to improve the m/s switching, and I
think we'll succed in it in the future.
Another question is why FhG uses plain stereo as default settings when there
are enough bits (ie from 160k)?
Gabriel Bouvigne - France
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