View Single Post
Old October 9th, 2006   #14 (permalink)
Cid Highwind
Human Metal
 
Cid Highwind's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Holland / Hungary
Posts: 13,552
Quote:
Originally Posted by hushypushy View Post
i was thinking about making it sticky. i probably will, gotta have at least one stickified video thread.

transcoding mp3s on their own doesn't sound so bad. some guy had a thread on hydrogenaudio where he compared the wav to a converted mp3 to an eighth generation transcode...and apparently the results were remarkable (not as bad as you'd think). i'm gonna make my own test one of these days with ogg to mp3 and to other things. for some reason though, transcoded mp3s sound AWFUL on youtube, i have no idea why. all of my first gen mp3s (ones that were original mp3s in the avi's that i uploaded) sound better than my second gen ones (mp3s that were encoded to mp3s that were uploaded to youtube).
Well the only experience I have is that I have made CBR 128kbs MP3 from some VBR MP3 source files, and that is something I advice against.
__________________

PC Specs:
CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz
GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 / 1024MB / Core: 801 / Mem: 1000
Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1)
SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz
HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint, 32MB
PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W
Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 1920*1200

Geometry Wars: 198.400
Lumines: 999.999

Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!
Cid Highwind is offline   Reply With Quote