[mythtv] Perl expertise wanted
Jim Paris
jim at jtan.com
Wed Jul 9 23:43:50 EDT 2003
> > I believe supporting both of these formats will cover all VBR files.
> > We could always fall back to the check-the-first-few-frames method if
> > neither header exists, although it would be much quicker to just
> > assume it's CBR if these headers are not present.
>
> I know from some experience that many LAME-encoded vbr files don't use
> the Xing frame, and show up as 32kbps in non-smart players. Does
> mythmusic use id3lib/libid3? Shouldn't this library already handle all
> this sort of stuff?
It's unrelated to id3 tags, but the library may handle it. Do these
LAME-encoded files start with the four bytes 'VBRI'?
-jim
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