[MEncoder-users] Re: Why use TOOLS/calcbpp.pl and scale ?

[Nico Sabbi]

RC wrote:

>On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:13:03 +0100
>Hynek Schlawack <hs+mencoder at ox.cx> wrote:
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>>>I guess it's still in general worse than vorbis (I haven't tried
>>>myself, but older blind tests said that FAAC was worse), but _maybe_
>>>in the cases where vorbis screws, FAAC doesn't screw as much.
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>>>
>>Yeah, that's somehow my hope.
>>
>>RC? Any experiences?
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>Sorry, no.  -ovc faac support is fairly new, so I've never tried it at
>all.
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BTW, muxing aac is as straightforward as anything else, because faac 
produces only
fixed 1024-samples frames (although the bitrate is always variable)