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Paf077 Offline Posts: 119 Threads: 22 Joined: Sep 2005 I just noticed that it's using the Lame mpeg III encoder , "(LAME MPEG Layer III Audio Encoder)" . but this is a fresh install and the only lame encoder I installed is lame.ax. How is this possible?Paf sub Offline Administrator NextPVR HQ, New Zealand Posts: 106,519 Threads: 767 Joined: Nov 2003 stattik Wrote:sub Wrote:Do you have GB-PVR installed in the standard direcory?D:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr is the install directory.If you temporarily create a C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr then it'll save a mvptranscode.grf in that directory. Can you open it in graphedit and post a screenshot? cubsfan Offline Member Posts: 96 Threads: 2 Joined: Sep 2005 paf077 Wrote:I just noticed that it's using the Lame mpeg III encoder , "(LAME MPEG Layer III Audio Encoder)" . but this is a fresh install and the only lame encoder I installed is lame.ax. How is this possible?PafYou need to install an updated version of the LAME encoder. it is using the newest version, your log says it can't find the LAME MPEG Layer III Audio Encoder because it can't since that is teh older version. sub Offline Administrator NextPVR HQ, New Zealand Posts: 106,519 Threads: 767 Joined: Nov 2003 paf077 Wrote:I just noticed that it's using the Lame mpeg III encoder , "(LAME MPEG Layer III Audio Encoder)" . but this is a fresh install and the only lame encoder I installed is lame.ax. How is this possible?I dont really know what you're trying to ask here. You installed a file called lame.ax. Inside this file is a directshow filter called "LAME Audio Encoder", which according to your logs is correctly being used. The older version of this file had a filter called "LAME MPEG Layer III Audio Encoder" so GB-PVR checks both names. There is no problems there. sub Offline Administrator NextPVR HQ, New Zealand Posts: 106,519 Threads: 767 Joined: Nov 2003 Quote:I have both of these files the msado15.dll and the mvptranscode.grf on my system although I am using a standalone GBPVR unit and not an MVP device so I'm not sure if that matters for the mvptranscode file. Anyways when I try to open the file in graphedit it tell me "Some files that the filter graph uses are no longer available" so I can't open it...hmm, without this mvptranscode.grf opening, I dont have much to go on. If we could open this, we could see how the audio is hooked up.The msado15.dll is unrelated, and not important to this missing audio. cubsfan Offline Member Posts: 96 Threads: 2 Joined: Sep 2005 sub Wrote:hmm, without this mvptranscode.grf opening, I dont have much to go on. If we could open this, we could see how the audio is hooked up.The msado15.dll is unrelated, and not important to this missing audio.I'll attach the file. sub Offline Administrator NextPVR HQ, New Zealand Posts: 106,519 Threads: 767 Joined: Nov 2003 grf files arnt portable between machines, which is why I was only after a screenshot. cubsfan Offline Member

Digital Digest -> Software -> LAME MP3 Encoder -> Downloadslame3.99-64.zipThis is the download page for the archived download "lame3.99-64.zip". For the latest downloads for the software LAME MP3 Encoder, please return to the main software page by clicking here.Download Description:Download LAME - 64-bit versionSoftware Description:LAME is an MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL.Version:3.99Date:2011-10-16 13:41:46File Size:714 KBDownload Count:141The download link to the right is enabled with our secure download manager to ensure a successful, faster download. You can download this file without our download manager here.Notice: This download is an archived download, it is not the latest version of this software. To get the latest version, please refer to this page.Rate this software: Your Rating: You have not voted yet! Average: 3.69 Total Ratings: 48 About Digital Digest | Help | Privacy | Terms of Service | Submissions | Sitemap© Copyright 1999-2011 Digital Digest. Duplication of links or content is strictly prohibited.

Ok, I did a little research regarding the lame library (i.e. "lame mp3 encoder"). Nearly all audio-apps use a LAME based encoder because the original Frauenhofer MP3 encoder is patented and doesn't allow modifications.The subject is very complex and hard to generalize. Many applications use their own modifications of the core LAME encoder, and only few apps really use all the options offered by the core LAME library. The final sound quality and calculation speed can't be generalized. This makes it difficult to say anything general about the effect of a high input precision, for example 16bit vs 24bit. Or a higher samplerate.Serious mp3 encoders would carefully prepare the wav files before doing the actual mp3 convertions, for example really high quality sample-rate convertion, floating point to fixed-point convertion (i.e. normalization) or advanced "playback clipping after decoding" prevention. A good encoder would use the highest quality but insanely slow HQ settings that most free mp3 encoding apps don't offer at all, or stuff like grouped replaygain (for albums).. All these things are very hard to predict. For example, I observed that Soundforges' mp3 encoder does a really bad job, it sounds worse than some free apps! Shame on Sony.However, I can confirm that the original LAME encoder will deliver "better" results for a 24bit input (compared to 16bit). LAME will definitely use the additional information and greatly increase the processing quality (much like vst plugins do). LAME will not truncate the input before conversion. Good news IMO. However, Inever really compared it in practice.But, LAME will resample the material if required and this converter's performance is far lower than professional sample rate converters, it's optimized for speed, not quality. So it's a good idea to not force any implicit samplerate convertion by LAME and convert the source to the target mp3 samplerate.Again, the two points above are totally dependent of the hosting application. So in case you don't fear the command line and/or batch files, download the command line tool:Download LAME MP3 Encoder 3.99.3 : LAME MP3 Encoder is the best mp3 encoderand use this guide to tweak the settings to taste: can simply run the exe via command line or batch file using adding the according parameters. This seems a little "geekish", but is much easier and faster than anything else once you get used to it. The main point is that you can tweak lame to death, you