alternate (custom) settings to -normal (psytel 2.12) Options

[Dark Shadow]

i'm wondering which settings other people use for psytel aac (but i'd like to know ;-)

-br 160 -vbrhi -c 20000 -low_ath -ihsc

is it good / bad / better or worse than -normal?

files seem to be smaller than with normal setting but i don't need the higher cutoff rate. i don't have ears like a bat.

i'm just a user and not an expert, so i don't want to play around with 'hidden switches' if i don't have to.

currently i'm just looking for best setting which shouldn't go over 200 bitrate. between 150 and 200 would be nice. (-extreme is a bit too high for most of the songs).

thanks for your comments.

[Sachankara]

I use "-vbrhi -ihsc -safems" which I (and some of my friends) find quite good... Produces bitrates between 150 to 180 kbit/s.. Though in some rare occations, it can produce bitrates as low as 80 kbit/s (short single channel encodings) and up to 215 kbit/s (only reached this high with a couple of techno/trance songs)...

I´ll do some thorough testing once I get hold of some better listening equipment... My current $20 Sony head phones are quite bad... They make 96kbit --alt-preset Lame encodings sound the same as the original CD:s... :/ Hehe...

But I´m not an expert either... I just use what seems to be good... Perhaps the presets are the best?

[Dark Shadow]

thanks for your answer.

i remember ivan posted that the presets should provide the best results. however, i like to experiment with new settings.

i'm now using -br 160 -vbrhi -ishc -low_ath -safe_ms.

which bitrate are you using? (-br?)
i think it has quite an influence (base bitrate).

i hope other people will post their settings, too.
would be quite interesting what other people believe sounds good.

ps: does aacenc crash on some files on your system too?
i had to restart encoding several times, but it happens only with some, and i don't think it depends on the settings (it's the same with -normal preset). dos window just quits with 'abnormal program' error (don't know what it is in english).

[Sachankara]

Originally posted by Dark Shadow
thanks for your answer.

i remember ivan posted that the presets should provide the best results. however, i like to experiment with new settings.

i'm now using -br 160 -vbrhi -ishc -low_ath -safe_ms.

which bitrate are you using? (-br?)
i think it has quite an influence (base bitrate).

i hope other people will post their settings, too.
would be quite interesting what other people believe sounds good.

ps: does aacenc crash on some files on your system too?
i had to restart encoding several times, but it happens only with some, and i don't think it depends on the settings (it's the same with -normal preset). dos window just quits with 'abnormal program' error (don't know what it is in english).

1. I´m not using -br at all... I let -vbrhi decide the most suitable bitrate... Works just fine for me...
2. No it doesn´t crash... Some older versions does but ever since the corrected version 2.12 was released, it has been dead stable...

What OS and version of PsyTEL AACEnc are you using?

[Dark Shadow]

ad 1) in readme.txt or somewhere else i found that standard bitrate is 128, so your standard bitrate is 128 i guess (i don't think -vbrhi does make any decision for standard bitrates).

ad 2) it could be that (maybe) the wav's are corrupt. i compressed them with a beta/alpha version of monkey's lossless encoder some time ago. i had some difficulties decompressing them.

after some time thinking, i decided that -normal should still give the best results, but files get larger than with my custom -br 160 settings.

i've also seen on this forum that ivan recommended not to use -safems without a profile. i'd like to know if this is still the case with the latest version (2.15). guess only ivan can answer this.