What are the advantages and disadvantages of using VBR encoding? Are they really really big or lower quality or what? <P>I had a poll here a week or so ago and I didn't include VBR as one of the ...

EAC + LAME obviously. I'm trying to decide whether to do 256 CBR or some flavor of VBR (I'm thinking 192 floor, v1, athtype 3, lowpass 19.5, normal stereo (since everyone here says joint isn't as good ...

In general, WMA 9.2 Lossless shouldn’t be used for WMV files for streaming, obviously, as they are CBR. And WMA 9 and 10 Pro can provide incredible sounding audio at lower bit rates, and transparent ...

My knee-jerk reaction here was to use constant bitrate encoding because the consistent stream should be easier to distribute, particularly in an adaptive setting where the viewer is often retrieving 2 ...