That was rude, dude. If anyone posting here ("measuring penile lengths") had the skills to code it, I'm sure it would have been done. Can we discuss about features without being ridiculed?jbrjake wrote:[...] just posting extended diatribes measuring the penile lengths of various encoding engines and rate control methods.
possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 too?
Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 too?
Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 too?
TimmyC,
You said:
You said:
Then you said:AAC passthru would certainly be useful for DVDs that already have AAC audio.
Your second statement is the correct one.it's my understanding that AAC is not included in the spec for DVD-video, nor for Blu-Ray
Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 too?
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Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 too?
I eagerly await your patch.musicvid wrote:I have one lingering question that got lost in the tempest, one that I hope you can answer. Would there be any practicality in being able to "pass through" an existing AAC stream in Handbrake, such as is done with AC-3? The advantage of not re-encoding a lossy format is the main reason.
I believe the DSW he's referring to is regarding audio encoders, not feature requests.TimmyC wrote:If you consider anything along the lines of feature requests, or interest about the quality of various encoders, to be "diatribes about penile length" you might consider formally restricting this "general" forum to developers only.
Sure; it'd be nice to pick novel ones, rather than the blindingly obvious.Dukers wrote:If anyone posting here ("measuring penile lengths") had the skills to code it, I'm sure it would have been done. Can we discuss about features without being ridiculed?
Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 too?
There is libavcodec/aacenc.c in ffmpeg.
I guess it’s to be hoped that this thing matures at one point.
I guess it’s to be hoped that this thing matures at one point.
Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 too?
The FAAC devs were hired to work for and develop Nero's (excellent) AAC encoder. (Nero's encoder is free, btw but not GPL)
Ever since then, only minor bug fixes have been done to FAAC. No real development. (Help Wanted!)
One thing that may or may not bug you: FAAC is limited to 160kbps MAX. That is too bad.
Granted AAC is more efficient than mp3 at lower bitrates, but yeah.
FAAC's own website says:
It is what it is, I suppose!
Ever since then, only minor bug fixes have been done to FAAC. No real development. (Help Wanted!)
One thing that may or may not bug you: FAAC is limited to 160kbps MAX. That is too bad.
Granted AAC is more efficient than mp3 at lower bitrates, but yeah.
FAAC's own website says:
http://www.audiocoding.com/faac.htmlNote that the quality of FAAC is not up to par with the currently best AAC encoders available.
It is what it is, I suppose!
Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 to
For those who can build from source: http://handbrake.fr/pastebin/pastebin.php?show=1266
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Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 to
Rodeo did ABR lame above.
And here's lame in mp4 http://handbrake.fr/pastebin/pastebin.php?show=1267
I only enabled it in the gtk gui. The cli should work. It didn't have any checks to prevent lame's use in mp4. The other ui's are up to their maintainers.
And here's lame in mp4 http://handbrake.fr/pastebin/pastebin.php?show=1267
I only enabled it in the gtk gui. The cli should work. It didn't have any checks to prevent lame's use in mp4. The other ui's are up to their maintainers.
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Here's another patch that combines the above lame patches and adds one more quality related tweak.
Lame, by default, uses joint-stereo mode. In this mode, signals that are "common" between the left and
right channel are subtracted from those channels and encoded separately. At low bitrates, this improves
overall quality, but at higher bitrates, it hurts imaging (channel separation). So I added a check for
higer bitrate usage (>=128kbps) and enabled regular stereo mode.
http://handbrake.fr/pastebin/pastebin.php?show=1269
Lame, by default, uses joint-stereo mode. In this mode, signals that are "common" between the left and
right channel are subtracted from those channels and encoded separately. At low bitrates, this improves
overall quality, but at higher bitrates, it hurts imaging (channel separation). So I added a check for
higer bitrate usage (>=128kbps) and enabled regular stereo mode.
http://handbrake.fr/pastebin/pastebin.php?show=1269
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Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 to
Any opinions on these changes going in? This provides higher quality audio than faac in mp4 for those the have players that support it. This includes many linux and windows players and devices like DROID.
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Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 to
JohnAStebbins wrote:Any opinions on these changes going in? This provides higher quality audio than faac in mp4 for those the have players that support it. This includes many linux and windows players and devices like DROID.
I've Just done a test encode to prove it, and it looks like the WDTV supports mp3 audio in mp4 container too.
I think it would be nice for this to go in, with perhaps a tooltip or something to highlight the fact that it will break Apple compatibility.
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Thank you! I'll wait for the next snapshot to test it.
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How do you know it's been committed?Dukers wrote:Thank you! I'll wait for the next snapshot to test it.
Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 to
Hey folks, the LAME support is working great. I've been using it with MKV for some time.
I have a small request. While Handbrake 0.9.5 is in development, If possible, can LAME be updated to 3.98.4?
I have a small request. While Handbrake 0.9.5 is in development, If possible, can LAME be updated to 3.98.4?
Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 to
Any particular reason why?Dukers wrote:Hey folks, the LAME support is working great. I've been using it with MKV for some time.
I have a small request. While Handbrake 0.9.5 is in development, If possible, can LAME be updated to 3.98.4?
Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 to
Because there are two red lines since 3.98:
http://lame.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checko ... story.html
http://lame.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checko ... story.html
Re: possible to get Lame (ideally VBR) audio, and for mp4 to
Neither of those provide a reason to upgrade. One's a decode issue, and ones a problem with code we don't use.