Quality Variation

2011-10-03 Thread Michael Ireland
I want to download all five episodes of Composer of the Week (26-30 September) on Radio 3. Monday and Wednesday (c.26.6 MB) have a bit rate of 56kbps and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (c.100MB) have a bit rate of 192kbps. Doeas anyone know a way of getting a higher bit rate for Monday's and

RE: Quality Variation

2011-10-03 Thread bat guano
I want to download all five episodes of Composer of the Week (26-30 September) on Radio 3. Monday and Wednesday (c.26.6 MB) have a bit rate of 56kbps and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (c.100MB) have a bit rate of 192kbps. Doeas anyone know a way of getting a higher bit rate for

Re: Quality Variation (re-formatted!)

2011-10-03 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Mon Oct 3 11:42:36 BST 2011, bat guano wrote: It's like you said, Monday and Wednesday's shows are currently 56Kbps, the other three are 192Kbps. Maybe the BBC will do something about it if they receive complaints. Hi, bat guano :-) Excuse me for saying that, but how do you propose people

Re: Quality Variation

2011-10-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 03/10/2011 22:58, Vangelis forthnet wrote: this uses LAME (uncertain whether it uses libmp3lame inside FFmpeg or the standalone version - I haven't installed the latter). FFmpeg At what value should the N parameter be set for these Radio 3 downloads for optimum results? (Sorry, I'm not

RE: Quality Variation (re-formatted!)

2011-10-03 Thread bat guano
As far as a regular iPlayer user is concerned, who streams the audio content from the iplayer interface, he has no clue whatsoever that the encoding team messed up. You're correct there. The 'listen again' programmes are intended to be played in a browser. A normal user wouldn't know

RE: Quality Variation (re-formatted!)

2011-10-03 Thread bat guano
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