Very Good Page On Suggested LAME MP3 Settings

[Soopafresh]

http://jthz.com/mp3/#TOP


Note - The VBR settings might not be applicable for A/V playing of DivX on Set Top DVD players.

[vitualis]

Most set top DivX players should be able to handle DivX with VBR MP3 as audio.

Furthermore, those settings are somewhat re-inventing the wheel. The --r3mix preset with LAME is very similar.

Regards.

[Soopafresh]

Some players have sync problems with VBR audio on DIVX playback.

[celtic_druid]

and --r3mix has not been recommended for a fair while now. It just gets mapped to -V 3 or something in recent releases anyway.

[vitualis]

Really? Do you have a reference to that? (mapped to -V 3).

Actually, I can't find anything wrong with --r3mix and it does pretty much exactly what the above settings do.

The --r3mix settings are on the whole very similar to the --alt-preset standard settings. If you can hear a difference from source audio, you have magical ears.

Regards.

[celtic_druid]

It may not have been -V 3 but it was -V something and it was one of the lame devs who said it. I will see if I can dig it up.

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=18091
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=30282

[vitualis]

Thanks.

I'm still using LAME 3.92 I think...

Looks like --alt-preset standard is probably about right for most usage then.

Regards.