What do the new LAME presets do?

[Huge]

I've searched but I can't really find what these new preset's actually do. I'm using the standard one right now which sounds great to me, but what's the difference between standard, extreme etc?

[MaTTeR]

For full details visit the R3MIX forums (http://66.96.216.160/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl)

Basically you will want to use the standard preset for DivX rips and it should give you an average bitrate of 150 depending on the movie. --alt-preset standard now replaces --r3mix in regards to quality.

[user]

they offer

VBR , ABR, or CBR

quality

in all desired bitrates.

VBR

for high bitrates

--alt-preset standard/extreme/insane

(insane is highest possible quality for MP3/Lame, 320 CBR).

ABR presets:

--alt-preset 128

replace 128 by your desired bitrate !
it results to an verage bitrate very close to your specified, eg. here: 128 kbit/s


CBR

--alt-preset CBR 128

this results to exactly 128 kbit/s

Of course you can specify in ABR and CBR other bitrates, with CBR only standard MP3 bitrates from 32 up to 256 , (for 320 CBR: use insane !),
with ABR alt preset: even bitrates like 147 kbit/s can be specified !

Look here:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=260

http://66.96.216.160/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?board=faq&action=display&num=1004134851