From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R0yaK-0003Ut-3S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:33:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B249D21C235; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:32:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD3721C186 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:29:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428F01B400A for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:29:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.966 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.966 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.633, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id R3PyS+k-rzQF for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 783361B401D for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:29:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R0yWq-0005pr-SK for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:29:40 +0200 Received: from athedsl-391488.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.81.62]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:29:40 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-391488.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:29:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:29:56 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20110906114857.GA7273@CasperVector> <20110906123454.GA29490@CasperVector> <20110906145647.GA30823@CasperVector> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-391488.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110822 Thunderbird/6.0 In-Reply-To: <20110906145647.GA30823@CasperVector> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4c535e1b275411cee9a138a0c72635e2 On 09/06/2011 05:56 PM, Casper Ti. Vector wrote: >> 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'" :] Actually, that's what I meant :-/ Use the 'lame' program. The package is "media-sound/lame". After emerging it, you can encode a file with "lame -V 0 input.wav"