Re: [MP3 ENCODER] new VBR code

[Ivo]

> The thing I worry about with VBR is the following:
> A VBR with an average bitrate of 180kbs may sound as 
> good as a 200kbs CBR 99% of the time.  But 1% of the time
> the psycho acoustics could screw up and use 128kbs 
> when it needed 180kbs.  So 1% of the file might only be
> as good as a 128kbs encoding.   So which is better:
> 1:  average bitrate 180kbs which sounds like 200kbs 99% of the time
> and 128kbs 1% of the time.
> 2.  CBR 180kbs which sounds like 180kbs 100% of the time

That's why I won't use a -b of <160 kbs when encoding at VBR. I even wonder if
that should be 192 kbs. But that would only be desirable if we want an average
of say, ~256kbs...

Ivo

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