Hey everyone. I'm no computer programer por anything so I was wondering if you guys could answer this question for me. Firstly I'll give you a bit of a background before ask.
I use to encode using Xing, buggled as "Audio catalyst". Thought this was great until a year or so ago I stumbled over the LAME encoder, never gone back. I use to encode in Full VBR with Xing and found that on average it would enocde around the 192kbps mark maybe less. It was rare for a song to have an average bitrate higher than 200kbps when encoded in full VBR. I have the lame encoder installed and have been happy using its VBR encoder with my settings set at my desired quality. The other day however I was in a rush to encode a couple of Cd's, so I used Xing, (as you know its a screaming fast encoder). After encoding the cd's I found that the average bitrates of those files were quite high, all over the 200kbps mark. This made me start to think....xing never encoded so high before, and I used the encoder for years with it, so I am very famialr with what it does. I encoded some cd's which I had already econded before with xing to see if it was just me or was the xing actually encodeding at a higher quality than ever before.... I used the Album "Chemical Brothers - Surrender". When I encoded this songalbum orginal with Xing @ full VBR, files had an average bitrate between 112kbps to about 140kbps. That was not good enough for me so I enocded at a constant bitrate of 192kbps. However when I enocded the Cd again, this time xing encoded the files in full VBR with a much higher bitrate average across the files, ie using higher bitrates when it encoded than before. So whats the go??? My question is? does the lame encoder do something weird with the xing encoder? Like stuff around with the registries or something. Does the lame encoders settings actually change or alter the xing encoder as well? Something is up with xng, cause it has never encoded so high before. Any comments? _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
