| Odes�latel: J. Sreedhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | i am looking for a general rule of thumb, for | instance, Audio Catalyst (which uses Xing encoder and | not LAME) says explicitly that If <= 80 kbps, it is | better to use mpeg 2. Is there a similar rule for | LAME?
XING is the worst-est encoder on the world. It uses only long blocks! MPEG 2 is given only by the samplerate 16...24kHz. MPEG 2.5 is 8..12kHz | As an experiement I used LAME encoder to compress one | rather poor WAV file to 64kbps mp3, and mpeg 1 gave | better results than Mpeg 2 which was noisy. This was | just one instance, however. "noisy" level depends o your samplerate changing routine. 22kHz j-stereo 64kbits with LAME is... shortly no good. But 22k mono 64kbit is excelent. All these are MPEG2. 22kHz j-stereo 64kbits with FhG is fairly good. And with MP3pro is very good (ought... in comparison with LAME, not absolute sound quality of course). BUt if you use 44kHz and mono, then 64kbits is enough for reasonable quality (MPEG1). Regards JL. _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
