As many of you may have noticed, if a track fades out
the bitrate decreases downto min_bitrate (ie. 32kbits).
But, if that track has a few more frames with digital
silence (zero energy), the bitrate switches up to
max_bitrate (ie. 224kbits). For a quick fix look at
quantice.c around line 662, there you see the following:
/* VBR will look for a quantization which has better values
* then those specified below.*/
targ_noise[0]=0; /* over */
targ_noise[1]=0; /* max_noise */
targ_noise[2]=0; /* over_noise */
targ_noise[3]=-2; /* tot_noise */
and change tot_noise to zero:
targ_noise[3]=0; /* tot_noise */
The problem with the original code is, that for digital
silence you can't achieve a total noise of -2db, and
you will stick at max_bitrate.
Robert
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