Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Could a 2-pass mode improve bit reservoir usage?

2001-09-21 Thread Bob Cain
Is anyone willing to take this on? It would be a major leg up on any other encoder (and I want it bad.) :-) Bob Youri Pepplinkhuizen wrote: Simply put, the encoder would first encode the data to a specific quality (VBR), without making use of the bit reservoir. Then after those results

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Re: Options --adapt-thres-type --adapt-thres-level

2001-10-08 Thread Bob Cain
J.D. wrote: I really should insert a somewhat meaningful tidbit for --adapt-thres-level into LAME's --longhelp, Ironically, this task has been lingering on my backlogged TO-DO list for some time. That's my lame excuse anyway. (Oh no! Did I just make a bad pun? Somebody shoot me with a

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] The Pause That Documents

2001-10-10 Thread Bob Cain
David Balazic wrote: Very hard to double-click the To: field and hit BACKSPACE ... ( to delete the authors address ) Why not make the most probable choice the easiest one? Because it makes replying only to the author a pain-in-the-ass. I would rather that than making replys to the

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Ok, Reply-to mp3encoder behaviour changed

2001-10-11 Thread Bob Cain
Warren Toomey wrote: I've just changed the Reply-To: field to point to the list, not the original author. Please stand by for lots of hate mail from the people who want it to be the other way around :) Thanks, Warren. My skin's tough. :-) Bob -- Things should be described as

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Timeshifting after decoding

2001-12-05 Thread Bob Cain
Gabriel Bouvigne wrote: Is there a way to predict this timeshift? Does anyone know if it's a variable based on encoding or constant? It's because of the encoder delay. Now (3.90) Lame writes a kind of header into the first frame, and one of the fields of this header is the encoder

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Timeshifting after decoding

2001-12-05 Thread Bob Cain
Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:02:42AM +0100, Gabriel Bouvigne wrote: Given that could a well written decoder strip it off and give time and length coherency between source and result? Yes, it's perfectly possible. However this tag is quite a new thing, and I

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] New Win program

2001-12-17 Thread Bob Cain
Tom Stokes wrote: For awhile, the executable is there also. Curious, Tom. Why just for a while? Thanks, Bob -- Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler. A. Einstein

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] MS stereo

2002-01-21 Thread Bob Cain
reinhard wrote: hi i have some question about the ms threshold in aac first , the mthr/sthr what is it mean? second, why the BMLD only depend on energy thank for anwer Could you (and others) please post in text rather than HTML. Your posts are

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Are there any filters used by lame bydefault?

2002-07-01 Thread Bob Cain
Raider wrote: On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 04:03, Chris Holt wrote: Hello, Raider, Hi Chris... Here is my test list: Do you draw any conclusions as to the rank of your list? Bob -- Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler.

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] (sorta OT) Copy Protection

2002-07-07 Thread Bob Cain
DoC wrote: Actually we have something like that under OS/2. It's called Tonigy (www.tonigy.com), an IFS (Installable File System). Have you tried seeing what happens trying to access a copy protected disk? I keep Charley Pride's A Tribute to Jim Reeves solely to have one protected disk

[MP3 ENCODER] CD Ripper using Lame and CDDB?

2002-11-23 Thread Bob Cain
Can anyone point me to a CD ripper that will allow me to use Lame with my own switches and that employs CDDB instead of FREEDB (which seems unable to keep up with the new CD content and has very spotty coverage of labels outside of the mainstream compared to CDDB)? Audiograbber only allows

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] CD Ripper using Lame and CDDB?

2002-11-24 Thread Bob Cain
Dominique wrote: linux - Ripit.pl windows - Exact Audio Copy DONT use Audiograbber (and Windows ;)) bye Dominique Thanks, Dominique, but EAC also used FREEDB (and requires manual directory creation that Audiograbbber does automatically.) Bob -- Things should be described as

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] CD Ripper using Lame and CDDB?

2002-11-25 Thread Bob Cain
Dominik Szczerba wrote: Are you sure? I thought there was a place where you specify the server... and I didnt have to do anything manually. but maybe they changed it in the newer versions (I used it quite intensively about a year ago) CDDB has been replaced by CDDB2 which has tightened up

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] BJP fan club

2002-11-25 Thread Bob Cain
Chris Holt wrote: I must apologize for my prior insults. We should all admit, both programmers and users alike, that we are fools for writing and even using software that does not conform to Bowie's standards for input file analysis in command line driven software. I for one have

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME puts silence in the start of a mp3

2003-01-07 Thread Bob Cain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is not something lame does, it's something mp3 does. however, lame is the only mp3 encoder which can actually prevent this. use the --nogap and --nogapout switches for this. see how in the documentation. Could you provide a link to that documentation? It

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME puts silence in the start of a mp3

2003-01-10 Thread Bob Cain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just use lame -? =) Thanks, Daniel. What does one say in DOS to send that output to a text file? Bob -- Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler. A. Einstein

[MP3 ENCODER] lame -?

2003-01-14 Thread Bob Cain
Could this possibly be fixed so that under DOS it goes to standard out. It is the only way to currently see the up-to-date set of flags and in DOS there is no way to see it. Standard error can't be piped or redirected so it just scrolls off the screen. Thanks, Bob -- Things should be

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] lame -? / DOS

2003-01-15 Thread Bob Cain
Mark Taylor wrote: please try: lame --longhelp lameopts.txt I also remember that we fixed this problem a long time ago, but maybe only for --longhelp Yes! That did it. It would still be a sane thing to change the short help to go also to standard out. Thanks, Bob -- Things should

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Is the new LAME 3.93.1 o.k. to use

2003-02-21 Thread Bob Cain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I can't tell weather to use EAC or Rooft Audio Tools. EAC also seams likea deacant CD Ripper program. Lars Rosenberg CEO of Rosoft Engineering, Karlstad, Sweden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lars, one question on your CD

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] LAME on .NET

2003-03-24 Thread Bob Cain
Jon Skeet wrote: Has anyone tried to convert LAME to .NET at all? What does it mean to convert to .NET? Bob -- Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler. A. Einstein ___

Re: [mp3encoder] Bug in LAME 3.96?

2004-06-01 Thread Bob Cain
Dmitriy Startsev wrote: Hello, Grzegorz! You wrote to MP3 Encoder [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 01 Jun 2004 21:24:29 +: GK In the function 'compute_ffts()' there is a loop computing total energy GK of 1024-point FFT. The loop is placed in line 305 and looks as follows: GK for (j=11; j