Dibrom&JohnV -how you see the future of LAME? Options

[FinCoder]

Topic should be:Dibrom&John and others, how do you see the future of LAME?

So tell me. I wanna know.

This post has been edited by FinCoder: Nov 30 2002, 03:36

[defiantiger]

Sorry to revive, but having just joined and discovered this forum, I must just say that things like this seem to happen when a project isn't a commercial project. When there's no motivation (and in today's society, money is a motivating factor!) there's no direction, or very little. Look, I started encoding using Xing and AudioCat, and eventually found Lame. At the time, I felt nothing could touch Xing (I didn't have a great setup and I understood Mp3's weren't completely perfect copies, plus I was using VBR ~160kbps when everyone was using 128) until I used Lame. Then I got more space, a better system, and more demands. Having read a lot of links, I believe there's not much more we can push out of Mp3 and Lame in turn. Probably speed, but then there's the speed vs quality issue. If you're not happy with Lame 3.90.2/3 output, then it's time to look elsewhere. I've seen the "Lame 4 alpha" speeds and listened to the quality. Look, speed's all you really can push now (IMO), but if you're using Lame in the first place, speed wasn't an issue. Pushing more commercial companies to use Lame as an encoder would be a way to get more development done, but hey?, what more can we ask for from a streaming format that has some limitations. Looks like a typical Betamax vs VHS. I don't think the developers are going to spend much time on a project that's pretty much done it's job. It got us to Lame 3.90x, and that's pretty cool for my purposes. (I don't mind my PC working in the wee hours of morn encoding B) ) My thanks to the guys who got us this far and saved us from Xing!!