There has been a vorbis interface within the lame CVS since mid-December 2001. However, with the release of RC3 at the end of December, this interface did not work, BUT now it does.

I have re-written the interface so that it is now possible to do:

wav -> mp3
wav -> ogg
mp3 -> wav
ogg -> wav
ogg -> mp3
mp3 -> ogg
mp3 -> mp3
ogg -> ogg

PLEASE be aware that if you are transcoding or re-encoding, there WILL be a quality loss in the process. It is unavoidable.

The normal wav -> mp3 and wav -> ogg encoding produces bit identical files to standard lame/standard oggenc.

This is now available at: http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00/ , as usual.

NOTE: I am not suggesting that transcoding/re-encoding are good ideas. This program simply provides a vehicle for doing it if you have no other choice!!

john33;)

some nifty add ons would be:
- percentage display in the task bar
- quality mode should be shown while encoding as in oggenc

quality mode selection does NOT work.

e. g. 6.30 ends up in a 120 kbps file... should not heh

Benni,

Are you using the latest build? Should be 2 May @ 21:43. Are you specifying the quality setting as '--oq 6.30'?

I ask because I just checked it here and it worked fine on 6.30.

john33

just downloaded it from robertos site. My commandline in EAC is: --ogg -oq 6.30 %s %d

is this going to be merged into the official lame ?

Benni,

The quality switch should be '--oq', ie two dashes first. I have added your suggestion regarding displaying the quality/ABR setting used, and I have also added a post processing message indicating the average bitrate used, oggenc-style. I won't add the task bar progress indicator because that actually uses quite a lot of processing and slows down the encoding.

I'm not sure whether this will make it into the official lame yet. Considering it actually fixes something that was in the CVS but was 'broken', I should think there is quite a strong case for it to be taken 'on board'. We shall have to wait and see!

john33

Sorry, but I could only upload latest build now. Server problems.

The only change, AFAIK, is that it nows add a tag to the vorbis file: SOURCE= , which value can be MP1, MP2, MP3 or OGG

Regards;

Roberto.

ok, i can't read obviously