>I thought it was added to CVS but Takehiro has only added it to his
>snapshot version. The source is downloadable if you can compile it
>yourself. It may need some work before it is released in LAME.
>
>3.61 is certainly a lot slower with -h. The Win32 version on my AMD
>K6-2 428 (-V4 -h -k) encodes at about 0.3x. However, I'm not
>complaining if the sound quality is better. The next release may have
>the -hx quality selection where you can choose your own quality/speed
>ratio.
With the fixed 3.61 EXE (thanks Dmitry!) the speed only a few % slower than with 3.60,
i can encode VBR with 0.9x to 1.3x.
I agree, the sound quality is the most important, but if you can get speed as well
it's even better!
Peter
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