How about Average Bitrate for all Encoding Codecs?

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After learning about Average bitrate, I found that it was fantastic in the sense that it was a balance between a VBR and a CBR. Now, this would be great, since most songs have a complex and a simple part. People would also have limited space sometimes, and so they are stuck on a CBR most of the time if they are limited.

So, the ABR would then work like a VBR in compressing the simple parts further, and then keep the complex ones with a higher bitrate. Now, this is the difference. The ABR would then generate a filesize which is nearly identical to a CBR file, which means that people get higher quality audio with a predictable filesize.

As far as I know, only the MP3 encoder has the ABR function, none other have them. Wouldn't it be fantastic if we could have ABR on all of the codecs that do the encoding?

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Re: How about Average Bitrate for all Encoding Codecs?

It would have to be written into the codec its self (Ogg has abr), rather than dMC to add it somehow.