Which quality setting gives the best "near to" 192kbps in Nero's AAC encoder?

I've found -q 0.54 to be close.

There's no general answer to this question, since the average bitrate resulting out of the quality settings can vary dramatically, dependent on the kind of music you encode. For instance, encoding a classical album will generate smaller files than a heavy metal one, mainly due to the complexity of the music. Therefore, if -q 0.54 fits the desired average bitrate for the music genre you usually listen to, everything's fine. Whereas, judging by Sebastian Mares' 128 kbit/s listening test, small bitrate variations won't be noticeable anyway since these high bitrates are transparent for most (if not all) users.

What do think that readme.txt was meant for?

I meant VBR, sorry I didn't say that.

Of course you did, Matt. The quality setting you mentioned makes the use of VBR encoding quite obvious, since CBR and ABR modes require defining a certain bitrate.

Hanky, instead of annoying people with sagacious tips about reading text files you'd better have a closer look at the topic next time. Your rude statement was unnecessary and didn't answer the question at all.

The purpose of VBR is maintaining constant quality, at the bitrate the psycho acoustic model and quantization algorithm needs for that particular sample. Logically this is mutually exclusive to requesting a constant bitrate.

I beg your pardon, but did someone in this topic request "a constant bitrate"? The original poster asked for a setting "close" then "near" to 192 kbps, which logically mean that he's aware that VBR isn't constant.

Asking for the average bitrate corresponding to different VBR settings is very usual and perfectly makes sense. Especially in the audio domain.

Ive found -q 0.53 to be the closest.

I am curious what's the motivation for the original question. Why on the world would someone like to have bitrates 'close to 192 kbps' and use variable bitrate in the same process? Perhaps bandwidth or storage limitations ? Neither of both can be guaranteed when using variable bitrate settings for all input signals.
I just don't seem to get te point.

I'm sorry Hanky but id don't see what your trying to say. Matt B meanshe wants the average bitrate around 192kbps. Whats wrong with that? When you questioned bandwidth or storage limitations, what are you trying to say? that all people should use a high bitrate just because they are using vbr. Storage can be guaranteed when using vbr at a set average bitrate. Have you not noticed that vbr file sizes only slightly change from cbr files. The guy just wants his files around 192kbps, why question it. Are you incapable of simply helping him out.

Matt B, mate just stick to what you've got or what I wrote earlier and you'll be fine.

-br 192000 -2pass

thats the closest VBR i get to 192kbits :-)

Thanks for pointing that out. I did add the switch which would enable VBR encoding within Nero's AAC encoder, I thought that'd be obvious as I didn't use the switch for CBR or ABR.




Once again, thanks for pointing this out. I understand that the bitrate of any audio source will vary by nature of VBR and of the complexity of the audio. I was simply requesting the experience others have had with it.



Not much different, but thanks.



The point is my question, I've asked the question and I hoped for an answer which I got... if you have nothing to say other than to "attack" my question or motives then don't post. It just doesn't help.



Thanks, I shall take that into consideration.