32kbps for silence in lame vbr, could it be lower? |
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32kbps for silence in lame vbr, could it be lower? |
 Jan 3 2006, 12:47
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Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: 19-April 05 Member No.: 21535  |
Is there a reason silence isn't lower than 32? I know it probably won't make that much difference to a file to have it on the lowest possible bitrate unless theres a hidden track after 15 mins of silence.
Is there some hardware player compatability issues with extremely low bitrates or something? DAP's are not something I have, or will probably have so I'm not too worried about doing it. Would the -b 8 switch work if it's preceeded by a lame preset or does that preset override anything else? |
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Jan 3 2006, 13:28
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Group: Members Posts: 394 Joined: 6-May 04 Member No.: 13932 |
For sampling rates of 32 kHz and higher the minimum bitrate defined by the mp3 spec is 32 kbps.
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Jan 3 2006, 13:39
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Group: Members Posts: 341 Joined: 24-August 05 Member No.: 24095 |
QUOTE (stephanV @ Jan 3 2006, 02:28 PM) For sampling rates of 32 kHz and higher the minimum bitrate defined by the mp3 spec is 32 kbps.  It is possible to encode at lower bitrates with the lame --freeformat option, but only when using cbr. All software players I tried decode this correctly (Sounds awful of course, but for digital silence it would be very useful). So, I'd really like that switch to work with vbr, like "-V6 --freeformat -b8". |
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Jan 3 2006, 14:01
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Group: Members Posts: 394 Joined: 6-May 04 Member No.: 13932 |
I think freeformat can only be CBR, otherwise it would be too difficult to figure out the frame size.
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