Layer II VBR is ISO compliant. However, players are not required to support
it (unlike layer III players).
Regards,
Gabriel Bouvigne - France
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De : Patrick De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Envoy� : vendredi 10 d�cembre 1999 11:29
Objet : Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Test and introduction...
>
> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Gabriel Bouvigne wrote:
>
> > I think he's reffering to the last LAME release able to produce
identical
> > result (bit by bit) to the ISO code.
> >
> > Btw, isn't Philips the only company owning a Layer II VBR encoder?
> >
>
> Could be, and this would be a nice feature to have, but layer II VBR is
> not ISO-standard compliant I think; you do have a free bitrate mode; but
> all frames must be N or N+1 slots within this free fixed bitrate;
> maybe this could be incorporated into a NBC-toolame mode in the future ??
> (although I don't like the idea of building something that is not standard
> compliant)
> It should be fairly easy to code this, but the hard part is finding a good
> decision algorithm, ie when to stop the layer II bit-allocation loop;
> although this could be simple too; when all MNR's hit a certain threshold
> just quit bitalloc; I will add this to my toolame (experiment) list
> which is slowly progressing again BTW; I hope to report some things next
> week.
>
> regards,
> Patrick.
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