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Old 19th October 2015, 12:32   #1294  |  Link
Sp00kyFox
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works fine, thx for the quick update. I did a little search on that matter and found some official apple documentation about the different encoding modes:
https://developer.apple.com/library/...1-SUBSECTION11

this gives the following order for the bitrate variation (high to low):
--tvbr, --cvbr, --abr, --cbr

according to this document cvbr uses the bitrate setting as a lower limit. so I'm not sure which one should be the correct choice, maybe I misled you. in terms of hitting the target rate --abr is the appropriate choice. --cvbr allows more variance but definitely results in a higher bitrate on average than the user selection. it's your decision in the end but I think regarding the user expection for the setting "average bitrate" the option --abr should be prefered (or you add a switch to the advanced settings like you suggested).

sorry for the confusion but hopefully I shed some light on qaac's encoding options.

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