Originally Posted by hardplay

This is a setting that i usually use for my portable players, it produces decent sized files, but of course you can increase that value to what ever you want.

Consider that this is VBR-ABR, it doesn't have much sense bringing the value to 192 kbs. Many users split the min. and max value, so that would be 160 kbps.

You can also try and give the max. option a greater value like 256, in this case 185 to 195 kbps would be a reasonable value as the averge fixed bitrate.



ABR and VBR are not the same thing, VBR will scale the total range from 16 to 320 kbps. ABR (average bitrate) as it's called will work inside a fixed minimum and maximum bitrate range. In the case of the first setting the user determines the lowest and the highest encoding setting and also indicates the average bitrate for the whole file.

Immagine a Vumeter with a 60db range, the needle will alway's be lurking back and forth in the 30 db section.





hope that helps you