Triode;347173 Wrote: > Lets hope the beeb continues with support for the mp3 streams for a > while or moves to a codec which we can also support via transcoding. > To me the main aim is to get somethign with better quality than the > real streams. I am dubious the aac+ means they can reduce the bitrate > too much. The 192k mp3 streams for radio 3 sound relatively good. The > 128k mp3 streams for other stations are ok, but not great.
I totally agree - quality is the issue. If I'm not mistaken, the mp3 streams (RTMP/Flash and iPhone) we have today are re-transcoded from the DAB/satellite mp2 broadcast streams (eek). The new AAC+ ones will use pre-transcoded streams which will significantly improve the quality. Also AAC+ is really quite a lot better at the same or lower bitrate in blind listening tests compared to the well-aged mp3 algorithm and pshcho-acoustic models. This link shows results for mp2/aac+ (relevant given the sources we're talking about here): http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/mp2_vs_aac+.htm#AAC_AAC+ -- linuxcentre ------------------------------------------------------------------------ linuxcentre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20244 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
