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

[Robert Hegemann]

> The Safe-VBR mode is more a constant rate encoding than a variable rate
> encoding. I made (not in CVS) a switch allowing to specify a target
> bitrate with --abr 157 and noticed that 157 kbits would be reached more
> often than not. OK that fatboy sample needed a lot more than the target
> bitrate ;)

OK, Safe-VBR is now in CVS.

You can try it like

        lame --abr 200 -h a.wav a.mp3
or
        lame --abr 200 -b 128 -B 256 a.wav a.mp3


Robert

PS: abr stands for average bitrate
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