LAME 3.100 alpha testing Options

[IgorC]

New build of LAME 3.100 alpha is available on http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php

Changelog

[shadowking]

As long as problematic samples benefit then slight overall bitrate increase is justified IMO. If the psymodel is more robust that should not turn people off that there is 6% increase. So far its clear that from v3.98 is more defensive and 3.99 / 3.100 even more so . V1 / V0 produce higher bitrate and i have tested the other day some problem samples of the past and the quality is near transparent and thats what matters to me . In the past there was little to zero tunings on anything other than V2 or --preset standard. Going to --preset extreme often did nothing. Now there is a proper VBR scale that works.

[IgorC]

As long as problematic samples benefit then slight overall bitrate increase is justified IMO. If the psymodel is more robust that should not turn people off that there is 6% increase.

Most of people will agree with this wiki info. It's the idea of VBR. But that should not turn off people to try two versions of encoder with different vbr settings simply because it doesn't end up with the same bitrate anymore as previously.
It creates an illusion of endless improvement untill you get 300 kbps for v2 (?)


Shortly it's not a problem if an encoder increase bitrate on its hard samples, the problem is when encoder just use more bitrate for any kind of samples and people confuse this situation with the first scenario, buying it as improvement.

This post has been edited by IgorC: Nov 9 2012, 03:17