Quality Variation

[dinkypumpkin]

On 03/10/2011 22:58, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> this uses LAME (uncertain whether it uses libmp3lame inside FFmpeg or
> the standalone version - I haven't installed the latter).

FFmpeg

> At what value should the N parameter be set for these Radio 3 downloads
> for optimum results? (Sorry, I'm not familiar with CLI LAME,
> I mostly use GUIs and choose CBR).

--mp3vbr takes value 0-9. See:

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LAME#VBR_.28variable_bitrate.29_settings


> My portable player is very "naggy" about VBR mp3s, what I ideally want
> is some patch for get_iplayer to tell it to produce a (at least) 192kbpsCBR
> mp3 file when it deals with "flashaacstd" Radio 3 files in conjuction

This your chance for glory :)  It wouldn't be difficult to add a 
--mp3cbr option to override the default 128k.