Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
> 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"

You're talking past each other. Casper thought you meant 'lame' as an
adjective, not as a proper noun.

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