Hi Roel!
> Hello,
>
> [MP3 ENCODER] Marks new VBR now the default
>
> I know I'm not a developer myself, but I'll try to make some points.
>
> If I understand correctly, there was beta up to 3.83, and then both
> Mark Taylor and Takehiro Tominaga put forward a new VBR algo
> (respectively -Y and -Z).
> I tested -Z, was very happy with it, and it became default for some
> builds.
Takehiro's scalefac_scale feature (-Z, it was not another new VBR mode)
had to be turned off for VBR, because the VBR modes already created a too large
variation of the scalefactors. Together with that feature it got even worse and
we would have to rescale the quality settings to compensate distortions
introduced by it. We did not drop it, it's only not the default.
If you like it back, you will have to add -Z at the command line.
<snip>
> I'm politely asking to make the now "--old-vbr" default for 1 more
> build, call it 3.84beta (I don't know of bugs in this version) and
> then maybe continue development on the current Mark vbr as 3.85alpha?
> The Mark vbr needs much work imho, and for now the only available beta
> giving results (poorer Q though) like 3.84a-Z is the 3.80 build :(.
>
> thank you for the time and bearing with me through the lengthy text...
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Roel mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<snip>
If you really want the old behaviour you would only have to replace
-v with --vbr-old -Z.
From my point of view it was time to make Mark's VBR mode the default,
because we need more feedback to find possible bugs (Thanks to Mathew,
who immediately found a showstopper ;)
Ciao Robert
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