Hi Hope u can help
Have recently switched on the advice of others who said it was more stable to lame 3.90 from 3.97beta but am encountering probs. I know that there are those who state 3.97beta is the standard now but i guess that is another whole thread. With 3.97 everything ripped at 190kbps or above. Now with 3.90 everything is ripping at 190kbps or less. I dont recall what settings i needed to change the first time around to achieve the higher bitrate and having messed around with some settings with the 90 encoder compression settings without any luck i thought i would give u a shout to see if anyone here might be able to lock it down what i may be doing wrong Thanks in advance

With 3.90, use --alt-preset standard.