But I was a little confused by the following statement in the Lame manual: --- The use of -B is NOT RECOMMENDED. A 128kbs CBR bitstream, because of the bit reservoir, can actually have frames which use as many bits as a 320kbs frame. VBR modes minimize the use of the bit reservoir, and thus need to allow 320kbs frames to get the same flexibility as CBR streams. --- Does this imply the bit reservoir is also used for CBR datastreams? If so does that imply that some frames of a 256 kbit/s CBR MP3 will contain 256+ kbits/s of information?
Why I care, briefly: I recently used VBR to encode. It required 320 kbit/s for some frames and I got worried my rpevious 256 CBR wasn't enough bits. If my description of the Lame manual is correct, then I need not worry. If I'm reading the manual incorrectly, then perhaps I should begin encoding at 320? Thanks all! J _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
