Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some observations of vbrtest problem

2000-07-21 Thread Steve Lhomme
I've heard some time ago about a software (a plug-in for RealPlayer or something like that) which enhance the sound quality of encoded music (.RA and .MP3) and it mostly process a better phase between signals and generate 'supposed' harmonics. So I think it's a common problem of audio encoding

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some observations of vbrtest problem

2000-07-21 Thread Mark Taylor
> > Mark, would you give me more detailed explanation about this? > How can I reproduce this? > > Mark> For example, two identical signals, just > Mark> phase shifted and with different low-level noise, can generate very > Mark> different maximum values, > > -- > Naoki Shibata e-mail: [E

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Weird question...

2000-07-21 Thread Mark Taylor
> > > Which version are you using? Such a bug was fixed a few months > > ago, but I just checked our change log and the fix was never > > recorded, so I dont know exactly which version. It was an overflow > > in one of the counters. > > I ran into it a couple of weeks ago, with a (mildly) old

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Multiple instances? (Was "Weird question...")

2000-07-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
> It's possible to call lame.exe multiple times without > having the thing crash. Therefore it seems strange to > me that one requirement for being part of the ACM > (which is that multiple instances must be possible) > is not met by Lame. I don't get it... Is it because > the ACM uses a library i

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Multiple instances? (Was "Weird question...")

2000-07-21 Thread Tony Iommi
--- Mathew Hendry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's closer to a device driver than a library. Since > there is only one > instance of the driver in memory, there is only one > instance of each static > and global variable: if several processes use the > driver at the same time, > they have to sha

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Multiple instances? (Was "Weird question...")

2000-07-21 Thread Mathew Hendry
> From: "Shawn Riley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It's possible to call lame.exe multiple times without having the thing crash. > Therefore it seems strange to me that one requirement for being part of > the ACM (which is that multiple instances must be possible) is not met > by Lame. I don't get it..