audio below 128kb/s ?

[anGGa]

Hi,

I set up this settings for audio in gknot;
" MP3, Custom Parameters (Experts)"
And since the "Lame box" (where u enter the strings) always shows 128, i dont usually change the strings if i wanted audio 128kb/s. But somehow after every encoding my audio bitrate is always lower than 128kb/s:confused:
This is really weird since i didnt change the strings at all (cause it was already 128, which is exactly what i wanted).
What went wrong?

1 more question;
What is better to use with Gknot? Vdub (like Doom9's guide) or nandub (like the help guide in Gkont)?

Thanks...

[TheWEF]

Originally posted by anGGa
i dont usually change the strings if i wanted audio 128kb/s. But somehow after every encoding my audio bitrate is always lower than 128kb/s...What went wrong?

nothing ;).
with lame abr it's normal that you end up with an average bitrate slightly below then what you aimed for.

Originally posted by anGGa
What is better to use with Gknot? Vdub (like Doom9's guide) or nandub (like the help guide in Gkont)?

what's better or not is a matter of taste, you have to find out yourself (read the forum rules ;) ).
vdub is for encoding with divx4/5 (actually any codec), nandub is for divx3 only.
nandub is a special tool for audio as well. no matter what video codec you choose, use nandub for muxing.

wef.

[anGGa]

Thanks for the info man..
So what do i choose if i want audio to be 128kb/s?
160kb/s or something?

[CdinT]

If you choose 160kbs you'll end up with something like 156.
So I guess choose 130-134.

[anGGa]

I chose 160 and ended up having 148 but its a good thing (for this rip) for the rest of my ripping calculation.
My guess is if u want 128 u better choose something like 140, but 130-134 would be pretty close ;)

l8!