hi guys! by my question you can prob tell im really new to this, but through reading and some help from a friend who does vid encoding i found my way to using EAC and Lame (ver 3.90.3)

when setting the compression settings in EAC should i use the user defined settings (which i think is the r3mix setting youi had the option on picking while first setting up) or should i use the LAME settings?

when using the user defined settings and with the command line --alt-preset extreme %s %d it does a vbr, and seems to dissregard whatever was selected in the bitrate option box (which im pretty shure its supposed to because the command line is what set the options)

but when using the LAME settings i used the command line --alt-preset extreme but when encoding it made a normal 320cbr mp3 (320kbs happened to be what was in the bitrate box at the time) so it seemes as if it just ignored the command line i put in.



now im really sorry if this is a stupid question or done many times before, i spent an hour reading through past posts here and diddnt find the exact answer to my biginner question, i learned more about other things in general though, so it deff wasnt a waste.

thanks for any help
-Zaskar

hmm.

I think with the bitrate setting, you can force the encoder to use a minimum bitrate. setting it to 320, it will become a 320kbit cbr. setting it to 160, it will prevent the encoder from making 128 kbit frames.

I use either --preset 128 or --preset standard and to have the full potential in size, I set the minimum bitrate to 96 kbit (which I would recomend).

cool, thanks man.

so when i used user defined settings why did it work and seemingly not use the minimum bitrate?

does --alt-preset extreem have a default min bitrate it used?

and is there any advantage to useing either the user defined settings or the Lame settings?