Best encoder for MPEG-1 layer 2?

[nhope]

Which is the best program for encoding MPEG-1 layer 2?

My source is mostly 44100Hz tracks ripped from CD, with a little 48000Hz/16 bit captured by my video camera. I edit and output the video and audio from Premiere 6, usually with the audio at 44100Hz in order to make VCD's or SVCD's. That way the music doesn't get resampled. By the way I am encoding the video with Cinemacraft Encoder 2.62SP Premiere plug-in, but I've been told its audio is not good, and in anycase I must demux and remux in order to make a VCD-compliant MPEG. Thanks!

Nick

[frank]

BeSweet with tooLame! Psy model 2.

[Divine]

oh ya?
Afaik the 'toolame' encoder plugin in besweet is actually mp2enc.
Which is not as good as the Toolame by mikecheng. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/toolame/)

[DSPguru]

mike chang's tooLame is known to be better than albert faber's mp2enc/2lame before it became floating-point. and is probably still better.
you can use BeSweetGUI's batch-mode for an end-to-end process that includes mike chang's tooLame.

[SILICON]

BeSweet with tooLame! Psy model 2.

Give us the Psy Model 2 better quality that the Psy Model 1 for sountrack?

This is true for all sound types or only for soundtrack?

[pacohaas]

Originally posted by DSPguru
mike chang's tooLame is known to be better than albert faber's mp2enc/2lame before it became floating-point. and is probably still better.

you can use BeSweetGUI's batch-mode for an end-to-end process that includes mike chang's tooLame. This means we need the intermediate wave file to use tooLame, correct?

the question we're all wondering: Is there a reason you're not using the "better" encoder for direct encoding?

[DJ Bobo]

There is no real difference in the quality, you gotta be an audiophile with very high end hifi system to tell any difference.

In my opinion, you can use any MP2 encoder (TMPG is the one that most poeple use), but not CCE, that one is a real mess when it comes to audio and the difference is obvious to almost everyone.

[DSPguru]

Originally posted by pacohaas
the question we're all wondering: Is there a reason you're not using the "better" encoder for direct encoding? tooLame is GPL, while MP2ENC is LGPL.