Upgrade the official HA LAME version?, Now (3.96) or wait until 4.0? Options

[Jebus]

Basically, as Takahiro has noted that 4.0 is still a ways off, and 3.90 is several years old, should we work on testing 3.96 now? If this version tests out as well as 3.90.3, or does with some minor tweaking, then the speed advantages at the very least make for some incentive, don't you think?

Benefits of an upgrade now:

• Faster encodes
• Lower bitrates
• Built-in clipping removal
• Forced --alt-presets when using VBR

This post has been edited by Jebus: Mar 7 2004, 00:05

[Lyx]

you also have to take into account, that even if we now test 3.96 and tune it(if necessary)... and then one day there'll be an 3.97 - then 3.97 will probably take advantage of at least some of the tunings and fixes of 3.96.

So, later versions will take advantage of 3.96 testing anyways. Of course with the implementation of new features, this advantage will slowly fade. Still... even if we dont get the absoluetely-total-optimum-version to do testing, future versions will take advantage of this. In other words - no effort gets lost.

- Lyx