Honestly not sure myself, but I can hypothesize. The whole point of MP3 transcoding is to better accomodate limited bandwidth, or more typically a highly variable bandwidth. In a simple "dedicated player with a flaky wireless connection" scenario, if the minimum possible available bandwidth is X, then it makes sense that X should be the maximum possible bitrate. But if you use vanilla ABR or VBR, you don't know what the maximum bitrate is, so you can't guarantee the stream will work.
So if you want to guarantee a certain amount of headroom, you have to use CBR or set a hard upper limit on the ABR or VBR, otherwise you may get odd bitrate spikes that may exceed the network's capacity. Don't shoot me for not getting technical details right, I don't even use MP3s or LAME. Just trying to figure it out myself. -- CatBus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52045 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
