[vorbis-dev] Delphi Header by Matthijs Laan vs RC3 = bitrates not working!

[Michael Smith]

>
>So... Would the API change discussed below be affecting me?
>I had assumed that the API was nearly finished and that backwards
>compatiblity wouldn't be broken.
>Did I assume incorrectly?

Minor API change with rc3 on encode-side, if you use managed modes (and
if you don't use a different initialisation function, you get a managed
mode).

There are two things you can do (you should do both).
Use "vorbis_encode_init_vbr()" instead of "vorbis_encode_init()" - this gets
you a full vbr mode instead of a managed bitrate mode (fully vbr is 
higher quality). You might want to make this optional - there are good
reasons to use managed modes sometimes, but you should default to vbr.

The second is the API change, which you need to make things work right - 
Instead of doing:
  vorbis_analysis(&vb, &op);
  ... handle output packet ...

Do:
  vorbis_analysis(&vb, NULL);
  vorbis_bitrate_addblock(&vb);

  while(vorbis_bitrate_flushpacket(&vd, &op) {
    ... handle output packet ...
  }

While this is obviously not in your language of choice, the conversion
should be reasonably obvious.

Michael

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