Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME CRASHES / LAME in the PRESS

[Don Melton]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 12:36:36PM +0100, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> I took a few "hard to encode" samples and had the contenders encode them
> at 96 kbps.  The most prominent sample was from a live CD of Herbert
> Gr�nemeyer, basically lots of applause.
> 
> The conclusions where:
> 
>   constant bitrate:
>     Fraunhofer, lame, Xing, (long pause) bladeenc

Did you do any testing at higher bit rates as well?  I'd be curious what
the results would be at 160 or 192.  (My wife, who has hearing a tall
dog would envy, can pick out Xing samples at even 160 and above but
sometimes has trouble distinguishing between the Fraunhofer and LAME
encoders at those rates.  I always use her as a test subject. :-)

Also, were the Fraunhofer samples done in high qaulity or "very" high
quality mode (aka "-qual 9")?

>   VBR:
>     lame+Xing, (pause) Fraunhofer

Do you think this is because the new Fraunhofer encoder (like the one in
MMJB) won't do higher quality and VBR at the same time?

And were these VBR samples "centered" around 96 kbps as well?

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