Hi.
I made some routines that displays "bitrate histogram" with time status.
It will helps you to know the trend of the actual bitrate at the VBR mode.
It displays the histogram like this.
$ lame -v --brhist t.wav t.mp3
Found WAV header: 44.1kHz stereo
LAME version 3.20 (www.sulaco.org/mp3)
Encoding t.wav to t.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz VBR(q=4) j-stereo MPEG1 LayerIII file
using GPSYCHO: GPL'd psycho-acoustic model
Frame | CPU/estimated | time/estimated | play/CPU | ETA
580/ 5445( 10%)| 0:00:16/ 0:02:32| 0:00:20/ 0:03:12| 0.9349 | 0:02:51
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Thanks.
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Iwasa Kazmi
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