A&E's Tech Guide being mean to me?

punistation · Post by **punistation** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 8:08 am

I just went through downloading that AMVapp pack, as recommended in the Guide. In the Exporting, compressing and multiplexing your audio for distribution part, it says (under Setup Options):

In the Lame compression box you will see a list like this:

44100 Hz, 320 kbps CBR, Stereo 40KB/s
44100 Hz, 256 kbps CBR, Stereo 32KB/s
...etc

But... mine doesn't.

I select the LAME MP3 codec in VirtualDub, and the box to the right says:

44,100 Hz, Stereo 40KB/s
44,100 Hz, Stereo 32KB/s
44,100 Hz, Stereo 28KB/s
...etc.

I'm not a newbie, but I'm not very technical. I know the basics, and that's always worked fine for me. I'm just learning to encode in LAME so I can deal with this VBR MP3 stuff, and it's uneditable-ness.

Now, without the 128kbps labelling, I'm lost. How do I get it to look like it does in the Guide?

Kisses XXOOXX
Jen

punistation · Post by **punistation** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 8:27 am

Also, in the EAC Guide, under Using CDs for your audio... do you have to do that Drive Options detecting test (Detect Read Features, etc) every time you rip audio from your CD's, or does it remember?

Kisses XXOOXX
Jen

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 7:24 pm

EAC should remember the drive settings after detection...

as for why you dont see the same information as me... I've no idea.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 7:50 pm

1bit = smallest form of data stored on a computer
8bits = 1 byte
1024 bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1024 bits = 1 Kilobit

Now bitrate is usually shown in Kilobits. Which can be confusing. Kilobit is just 1024bits. So converting Kilobytes to Kilobits is a simple matter of multiplying the KiloBytes by 8. You can convert Kilobits to Kilobytes by dividing the Kilobits by 8.

128Kilobits = 16/KB
160Kilobits = 20/KB
192Kilobits = 24/KB
224Kilobits = 28/KB
256Kilobits = 32/KB
320Kilobits = 40/KB

;O.

As for why yours doesn't already have the kilobits listed =\. Not sure.

punistation · Post by **punistation** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 12:11 am

Well, things are going just swimmingly.

NEW PROBLEM: In EAC, no matter what I do, I can't stop LAME from encoding to MP3 in the VBR j-stereo format.

There doesn't seem to be any option in EAC, and I've tried changing things in Control Panel/Multimedia/Devices (unticking the Average BitRate, seen below). How do I gain some control over this encoding process?

Also, under Compression Options in EAC, why can't I choose LAME MP3 Encoder as my Parameter parsing scheme? If I try, the .mp3 file extension goes grey, and the actual compression doesn't work. It only starts if I choose User Defined Encoder instead.

Anyway, concerning the earlier problem about encoding in LAME MP3 in Virtual/Nandub... I tried a little experiment. For Audio encoding, I first chose LAME MP3... then I did another using the good ol' MPEG Layer-3 option. After making two different AVI's with two different audio codecs... they were the same, right bown to the bit in the filesize. What's more, when I right-click the file and check Properties, they both say the Audio's encoded using LAME MP3.

That's not all. If I open both files in VirtualDub, and check File Information, both are listed as having the Audio Stream compressed with Fraunhofer IIS!

Can someone please tell me what's going on? This LAME VBR thing has been whacked from the beginning.

Kisses XXOOXX
Jen