> > On Tuesday 05 February 2002 18:07, you wrote: > > While planning the launch of a local radio station we found IceCast, > > LiceIce and LAME. We're amazed by its power. Since a lot of our listeners > > will have dial-up connections to Internet, we need to broadcast a 24000bps > > version of the station, but the LAME encoder won't help us with bitrates > > lower than 32000. How can we have a 24000bps version? > Lame will do bitrates as low as 8000bps. In your case > I would recomend an average bitrate of about 24000bps and an upper bound at > 32000bps. LAME is however (not yet) as good at low bitrates as is desirable > mp3pro is reportedly much better (but not free). > With IceCast I use m3w as a streaming client and it allows to set these > parameters (its on the win platform however) take a look at it. > > Martin
To get started, try: lame -b 24 -m m which will do mono 24kbps. And then try different values of --lowpass <freq_in_kHz> since the default choice may not be optimal. Large values will sound brighter, but have more encoding artifacts. Mark _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
