[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] beginnings of faac support for mencoder

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:31:27PM +0100, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> > Technically it could be done if you tune the encoder only to output
> > one packet size, or use very constrained CBR. The latter will sound
> > absolutely horrible (just like CBR mp3), but the former might not be
> > too bad. In principle it should improve quality except for adding some
> > preecho, which audiophiles tend to hate. :)
> 
> Of course you can do it, but there's no real gain :) Technically you
> could also put the Linux kernel into an AVI file and patch lilo/grub to
> boot from it ;)

rotfl! :))))
well, there is a gain for people insistent on sticking with avi...they
can use a codec that doesn't suck. but mostly i agree.

rich