What does (A/V) mean in WMA conversion Settings?

[zjman]

Does anyone know what the difference between regular stereo CBR and stereo (A/V) CBR is for WMA conversion settings?

[gameplaya15143]

Re: What does (A/V) mean in WMA conversion Settings?

it doesn't mean much of anything as far as I know... maybe it means that it will (er.. can) work in *.avi

[ChristinaS]

Re: What does (A/V) mean in WMA conversion Settings?

it doesn't mean much of anything as far as I know... maybe it means that it will (er.. can) work in *.avi

No. *avi has nothing to do with this. That's an audio/visual media type format, covering a huge range of subformats. Incidentally dMC doesn't handle the avi type. It's the underlying native file type for video - avi is to video what wav is to audio.

A/V stands for Average Variable bitrate. Somewhat similar to VBR (variable bitrate) but rather more concentrated around the average bitrate value specified. In fact closer in final result to CBR (Constant bitrate). Or something like that :D

[LtData]

Re: What does (A/V) mean in WMA conversion Settings?

From here http://www.dbpoweramp.com/spoons-aud...e-formats.htm:

Average Bit Rate (ABR) a little like VBR except with VBR the end file size is not known (could be small, could be big), ABR is VBR with known end file size, it works by regulating how variable the compression is, so at the end of the compressing the average is exactly the value specified.

[ChristinaS]

Re: What does (A/V) mean in WMA conversion Settings?

Close enough

[Spoon]

Re: What does (A/V) mean in WMA conversion Settings?

>A/V stands for Average Variable bitrate.

I always thought it stood for Audio Video (inrespect for the WMA codec), but could be wrong.

[ChristinaS]

Re: What does (A/V) mean in WMA conversion Settings?

>A/V stands for Average Variable bitrate.

I always thought it stood for Audio Video (inrespect for the WMA codec), but could be wrong.

Big Oops! I was thinking ABR ................ :o

Now I either delete or edit my post to cover up the blooper or I leave it so as to dispel anybody else's misconceptions (assuming I'm not the only one having such )

[LtData]

Re: What does (A/V) mean in WMA conversion Settings?

That still doesn't explain what changed from stereo to stereo (A/V). Anybody know?

[gameplaya15143]

Re: What does (A/V) mean in WMA conversion Settings?

the old wma v2 (divx audio) acm codec has some tags with 'for audio/video' and are the only options that can actually encode, which is why i would assume the a/v means the same thing.