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Lossy Audio Compression => AAC => AAC - General => Topic started by: Beebo on 2002-02-14 08:54:54

Title: Psytel AAC questions
Post by: Beebo on 2002-02-14 08:54:54
First, i'd like to congratulate Ivan for great work he did ( bravo majstore  )

And now, some questions:

I have downloaded the latest version of Psytel AAC ( jan 31. 2002. ) and i normally encode @archive quality. i'd like to know what's the profile thingy?
All AAC's i have are LC profile, are there any better profiles? Thanx
Title: Psytel AAC questions
Post by: Sachankara on 2002-02-14 11:58:33
LC is supposed to be the best at the moment...
Title: Psytel AAC questions
Post by: john33 on 2002-02-14 12:13:35
Latest version is 2.11 dated Feb 10.

john33
Title: Psytel AAC questions
Post by: wildboar on 2002-02-14 18:48:55
Quote
Originally posted by john33
Latest version is 2.11 dated Feb 10.

*********** PsyTEL® MPEG-4 AAC Encoder V2.12 (build Feb 10 2002) ***********
                  Copyright © 1999-2002 PsyTEL Research
                  Copyright © 1999-2002 Ivan Dimkovic
Title: Psytel AAC questions
Post by: Agent69 on 2002-02-14 19:00:02
Yeah, you've got to give it to Ivan. He really maintains his software.


Agent69:)
Title: Psytel AAC questions
Post by: john33 on 2002-02-14 20:02:17
Damn, did I miss one?!?!

john33
Title: Psytel AAC questions
Post by: rjamorim on 2002-02-14 21:34:16
Ok, latest AACenc and OggDec beta versions uploaded.

Now, I'm going back to the beach. Stop bothering me :-P 

I´ll be back next monday.

Kind regards;

Roberto.
Title: Psytel AAC questions
Post by: Ivan Dimkovic on 2002-02-14 22:25:11
AACEnc 2.12 has experimental quality controlled VBR mode:

-qvbr N

where N could be in the range from 0 to 100

This is very experimental switch, and there are several issues:

1. It does not support Intensity Stereo, and so it is very hard to compare very low bitrate modes with Ogg with Fake Stereo (intensity stereo will save 15-25% of the bitrate, but with losing phase information)


2. It is still not designed for "audiophile" quality, and quality of 100 will give 140-170 Kbps files

3. It is not optimized, and still experimental (did I say that already?)
Title: Psytel AAC questions
Post by: Beebo on 2002-02-14 23:07:05
just checked it...
it's 2.11, Feb 10
Title: Psytel AAC questions
Post by: Agent69 on 2002-02-16 01:07:47
Ivan,

Have you been doing other optimizations in general, besides the "experimental quality controlled VBR mode"?

When I read this thread, I decided to download the newest version, v2.12 and compare it to an aac created from a January '02 version of aacenc. Using a ripped wave of Richard Marx's Hazard, I encoded with only the -normal switch, which is what I always use.

Both sounded the same to me but I notice that the newer version produces slightly smaller files. For example,  The Jan '02 edition of aacenc I used produced a file 6,481kb in size, while version 2.12 produces a file 6,147kb in size.
Title: Psytel AAC questions
Post by: Agent69 on 2002-02-16 01:09:13
Quote
Originally posted by Beebo
just checked it...
it's 2.11, Feb 10


I just downloaded v2.12 (Feb 10) from Roberto.
Title: Psytel AAC questions
Post by: Agent69 on 2002-02-16 01:21:14
Maybe it is just that particular track. I just did the same thing with "Duel Of The Fates", by John Williams, and it is the same size as the original.:confused:
Title: Psytel AAC questions
Post by: sven_Bent on 2002-02-16 07:45:41
qhy dont yuo se if the bits are the same by running some CRC32 check on both files and see if the checksum is the same