Re: [MP3 ENCODER] VBR suggestions

1999-06-06 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
] Envoyé : lundi 7 juin 1999 00:07 Objet : Re: [MP3 ENCODER] VBR suggestions Xing speed is still a mystery. It's obvious that mmx asm is not the only key of their speed... I took a look at some of Mike's Xing/VBR castanets.wav encodings. One interesting thing: Xing never uses short blocks

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] VBR suggestions

1999-06-06 Thread Mark Taylor
Before the current Xing engine, there was a thing (awfull) called tompg.exe from xing for mpeg audio encoding. I can send it to you if you're interested, but it's a win32 file. The interesting thing is that there is an option in it to specify to pass or not in the psy model, or to let the

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] VBR suggestions

1999-06-05 Thread Mark Taylor
Thanks for the suggestions Gabriel. Here's what I've done: *fast mode must be forbidden with vbr done! *only accept 320k with higher settings, ie -V 0, like Xing done! *use no lower limit in bitrate For now I am going to leave the default 112kbs (changeabel with -b) My feeling

[MP3 ENCODER] VBR suggestions

1999-06-04 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
*fast mode must be forbidden with vbr *only accept 320k with higher settings, ie -V 0, like Xing *use no lower limit in bitrate *choosing bitrate like this: if (frame.blocktype==short) bitrate=previous_frame.bitrate; else bitrate=(previous_frame.bitrate)-1; finished=false; while