At 12:00 23/06/2000 +1200, Ross Levis wrote:
>That's a controversial move IMO. The advantage of true VBR is that more
>complex recordings use higher bitrates and less complex have low
>bitrates and filesizes with roughly the same amount of distortion. With
>Marks ABR the operator chooses the bitrate, so complex recordings have
>high distortion, and less complex recordings are wasting disk space.
By "Mark's new VBR" he means -v -Y mode, not --abr.
The -Y mode does seem to have problems, though. A five minute test track I
just encoded at -v 4 has spurious bleeps all the way through it. Smells
more like a logic error than a problem with the psychoacoustics.
-- Mat.
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