The guy who developed the '--alt-preset' settings has acknowledged the need for a preset with a lower average bitrate and has promised a 'medium' setting with a target bitrate of around 145 kbps.
See here... http://www.audio-illumination.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=16&t=1423&s=213d ccf965d8494f1976308e225b051f ...the URL will wrap ! � ----- Original Message ----- From: Vincent Kargatis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:37 AM Subject: [MP3 ENCODER] alt-preset "low"? I'm using EAC/LAME 3.92. I've traditionally made the choice to compromise on the sound in order to save space: 'alt-preset standard' is just too big a filesize for my uses. At the moment I'm using 'alt-preset 144[or 160] -b96' as a compromise to retain a smaller filesize. With that goal in mind, are there any better encoding option choices? Is it worth putting in a feature request for something like an 'alt-preset low' - something that goes for a smaller filesize, but does everything smart like 'standard' does? I'm not sure if I'm alone in such a market... Does the 'standard' methodology allow resolution scaling like that, or does it use heuristics that don't scale like that? Just curious - I'm ignorant about the innards. One aspect I'm wondering about with my current choice is that it doesn't seem to take a 'global' look at the file: say the middle section is very quiet and sparse, the 'alt-preset NNN' doesn't seem to decide it could use the unneeded space from there on the busier parts elsewhere - it just varies the resolution on a very whort time scale. (Heck, I don't even know if 'standard' does that, but I was assuming it did.) Anyway, I'm just looking for the best choice for my constraints. -- Vincent Kargatis np: Burkhard Stangl - "Teint" (R�cital) _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
