Original messages:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/mp3encoder/2001-September/003818.html
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/mp3encoder/2001-September/003807.html
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Has anybody discovered (and fixed) the source of this incompatibility? I too own a Panasonic DVD-RV31 with the problem. I discovered through trial and error that the problem does not seem to have anything to do with bit rates. If you turn on joint stereo encoding, the problem completely goes away. The problem appears (at any bit rate, whether VBR or CBR, and with any other settings) when encoding in regular stereo (with LAME).
I believe the Ulf stumbled onto this solution with his Roadstar PCD-3025MP unit also. I wonder if it uses the same decoder as the Panasonic DVD-RV31...
Anyway, the Panasonic unit plays back other stereo encoded files just fine, just not the LAME ones. Therefore I think there must be something in LAME that can be fixed to address this.
Could anyone (especially Mark Taylor) please respond to me personally to let me know the current state of this issue, as I don't know how to subscribe to the mailing list (I only found these old messages via a search engine).
Mark states that "there have been several reports of hardware players having trouble with high bit rate LAME encoded mp3s, but no one with one of these players has been willing to spend some time with LAME to track down exactly what is causing the problem," and that "there is one other experiment we would like to try on one of these players, but it involves a modified version of LAME." I would be very willing to do some experimenting to help improve LAME so it works completely with my Panasonic DVD player. Please contact me.
Chad Conrad
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