If I may suggest, I would always broadcast in Constant Bit Rate. Simply because the rate is, by definition, forever predictable, and clients may take pro-active buffering decisions.
Your listeners will hate you when their player stops, awaiting to cache more data. -- best regards, okay_awright <okay_awright AT ddcr DOT biz> [PGP key on request] On 26/09/2011 21:48, Audiodef Online wrote: > Is there one of these options that does best (is the most reliable) for > the most listeners across the broadest selection of players? > > On 09/26/11 19:35, Fábio Costa wrote: >> I am no expert but if if not wrong the difference is that >> # Variable bitrate >> %vorbis(samplerate=44100, channels=2, quality=0.3) >> The bitrate will change as it will to fit the quality >> % Average bitrate >> %vorbis.abr(samplerate=44100, channels=2, bitrate=128, >> max_bitrate=192, min_bitrate=64) >> The bitrate will get the best in min and max >> >> # Constant bitrate >> %vorbis.cbr(samplerate=44100, channels=2, bitrate=128) >> The bitrate will not change. >> >> The idea is that you can change the bitrate to fit a determined >> quality or you can prioritize your bandwith and make the bitrate fixed. >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > Savonet-users mailing list > Savonet-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Savonet-users mailing list Savonet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users
