Re: [MP3 ENCODER] What's Safe-VBR mode?

[Zia Mazhar]

Could you please give a little more details about it? How does this actually work? 
Does this
have any compatibility issue? And why not add an option for this in the binary?

- Zia


>
> 3. "safe VBR".  This mode is really CBR, but it keeps the bit
>     reservoir as small as possible and uses VBR to achieve
>     an unlimited bit reservoir.  When the target bitrate is
>      (for example) 128kbs, it will produce files slightly larger
>     than 128kbs, but *always* sound better than 128kbs CBR.
>     it also runs just as fast as CBR :-)
>     if you want to try it out, change the #undef SAFE_VBR to
>     #define SAVE_VBR in quantize.c
>
> Mark

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