> From: "Gabriel Bouvigne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Is any of your work going to be contributed back to our community
> > or is it going to remain proprietary?
> > I
> > by the way, what do you mean by "original revised LAME code"?
>
> I think he's reffering to the last LAME release able to produce identical
> result (bit by bit) to the ISO code.
In that case, BladeEnc might be a better base to work from, since AFAIK it's
still output-compatible with dist10.
> Btw, isn't Philips the only company owning a Layer II VBR encoder?
I think QDesign are working on one (you can see a VBR option greyed-out in
their I-Media encoder) but it hasn't seen the light of day yet. Perhaps
their more recent real time MP2 codec implements VBR, but their web site is
short on details.
The Philips VBR encoder seems to be quite impressive. One of the engineers
there (Franc Zijderveld) is quite active on news:alt.music.mp3 and has
posted a number of demonstration MP2s. For "transparent" output, the encoder
averages around 200kbps in joint stereo, 220kbps in stereo. It would be
interesting to see how well it copes with the test tracks on sulaco.org.
-- Mat.
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