Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Lame development matures ...

2000-07-12 Thread John T. Larkin
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 05:15:38PM +, Shawn Riley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > I think my headphones have a better frequency response than my > parents' hi-fi system which cost A$2500, & incidentally the > headphones came free with the system. The hi-fi system seems to have > a very heavy hump

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Headphones and Soundcards

2000-07-12 Thread John T. Larkin
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 08:17:40AM -0400, Greg Maxwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Zia Mazhar wrote: > > [snip] > > I was very happy when I upgraded to SB Live! from AWE32. The output of SB > > Live! is very clear and clean. Also, the price isn't very high any more - > > and

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Looking for educated guess or explanation

2000-05-23 Thread John T. Larkin
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 10:03:01PM +0200, Roel VdB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Hello Mark, > > Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 8:14:18 PM, you wrote: > > MT> Actually, there really are 22 "critical bands" or "scale factor bands" > MT> used by MP3. I guess we should stick to the C convention, and call the

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Is the -b option broken?

2000-04-16 Thread John T. Larkin
On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 10:11:02PM -0700, BBK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > command line: > > lame -v -b 96 -B 320 file.wav > > but according to the VBR histogram, it's still generating 32kb/sec > blocks, which > are undesireable. > > Is there some kind of bug in the -b directive, or am I not u

[MP3 ENCODER] Sorry about that...

2000-01-23 Thread John T. Larkin
I hate it when things go wrong while on vacation. Sorry for the excess spam. On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 07:22:31PM -0500, Mark Stephens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > You are sending your mail filter reply to the MP3 encoder list. I am sure > we all really appreciate the spam!! > > mark stephens --

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Creating code resource for Mac

1999-12-20 Thread John T. Larkin
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:38:26PM +0900, Osamu Shigematsu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > I got a promblem when porting L.A.M.E for Macintosh as REALbasic plugin. The > problem is almost of L.A.M.E codes are abruptly quit with calling exit() > function. However, I have to return error code and I am n

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options (and several questions)

1999-12-20 Thread John T. Larkin
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 02:19:29PM +0100, Gabriel Bouvigne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > > It's right that it's not a lot, but I think it's important. As an > > > example, a standard 10 or 15Hz high pass filter would be nice, as no > > > one is able to ear such frequencies, so why encoding them? >

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options (and several questions)

1999-12-17 Thread John T. Larkin
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 08:06:26PM +0100, Gabriel Bouvigne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > ... > It's right that it's not a lot, but I think it's important. As an > example, a standard 10 or 15Hz high pass filter would be nice, as no > one is able to ear such frequencies, so why encoding them? A 10kH

[MP3 ENCODER] Time vs freq filters

1999-12-16 Thread John T. Larkin
Looking at the (limited) docs for the demo Fraunhofer encoder (V3.1 Demo (build Sep 23 1998)), one of the options is to enable/disable "Soft time-domain filtering" which they say uses "a high-quality time domain filter instead of fast MDCT". They must be referring to the psycho acoustic model, si

[MP3 ENCODER] An introduction, and some questions

1999-12-15 Thread John T. Larkin
I'm new to this list in particular, and mp3 in general. While I've used mp3's for a few years, I thought I'd try to give a hand at improving the freely available encoders. But, as with most newbies, I have a fundamental question: Where do I start? I've watched the mailing list for a few days, a