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

[smok3]

<guesswork>
lame goals are:
- better low bitrates (IS and stuff)
- to tweak and add new presets (after new psy model?) in the entire range to get to the fullscale quality-based encoder similar to vorbis
or what?
</guesswork>

The technical implementation is trivial really. It's who is running it, and how, that is important.

it does look like a hard task to implement considering all the known and half-known facts to me. I had HA community in mind of course.

I believe that I was that 3rd person for awhile. The problem is that for this situation to work, both parties have to participate equally. There was no shortage of users willing to provide feedback to the developers to improve quality, but there was little interest on the developer side in using that information and constantly providing improvements (again, we're seeing some now.. but a year after the fact, a time when many have lost interest in waiting).

that is a no-win situation...

For more information on this, I suggest going back and reading this thread:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....=ST&f=15&t=3836

i did read that thread some time ago and i must say that it looks kinda personal (and funny at the same time), so without knowing the exact background or being involved into lame-dev the end user (me included) can't really understand whats going on, or whats up with (or where they came from) 'front-ends' and 'feature oriented' stuff like that, although it is pretty clear that average end-user is not really important (for some lame-devs).

This post has been edited by smok3: Nov 30 2002, 11:48