On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Gabriel Bouvigne wrote:
> Page 21 of the iso doc: "The decoder is also not required to support
> bitrates higher than 4482kbps, 384kbps, 320kbps in respect to Layer I, II
> and III when in free format mode"
>
> Does this mean than constant bitrates higher than 320kbps can be used in
> mp3? Then an extra high quality file using 500kpbs would be allowed?
>
Same thing as before (layer I/II VBR) I would say;
Yes you can use >320, but you are not sure that everybody will be able to
decode this; so you should think >= twice before using this ??
I would call this "being fuzzy compliant";
I don't like these kind of things being in the standard.
I also agree with the other follow-up; higher bitrates would move towards
near-lossless coding, other trics/things should work better there (?)
(possibly with lower-(psycho-)complexity but same quality)
But, if I now understand it, you may not use >320 in VBR, because
free=fixed.
regards,
Patrick.
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