But VBR seems to be disabled with the command line I used... And, whether VBR is enabled, the wrong parsing of the argument of bitrate options indicate that some error must exist somewhere. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 10:42:06AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > 'lame' is an MP3 encoder. VBR is 'variable bitrate', which means that > high-information sections in the input stream get more bits in the > output bitstream, and low-information sections in the input stream get > fewer bits in the output bitstream. An encoded song might use 192Kb/s > for a few seconds, and then 32Kb/s for a second, and jump up to > 256Kb/s for a quarter-second before dropping down to 128Kb/s--but > still sound to your ear like it was encoded at a constant bitrate of > 256Kb/s. All so that audio fidelity is maintained when there's > something there to actually hear. > > Or, more simply: > * 'lame' is an MP3 encoder > * 'VBR' stands for 'variable bitrate', and offers a better > size/quality tradeoff scale than saying "I want 192Kb/s" Thanks, I understand what LAME and VBR is, but was just mistook the idea of the original sentence as "use the `lame' program instead of `ffmpeg' or `libav'" :] -- Using GPG/PGP? Please get my current public key (ID: 0xAEF6A134, valid from 2010 to 2013) from a key server.