On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:24:47 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:


Don Pearce wrote in message news:4993d29d.580677562@localhost...
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:18:20 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf

Have you tried any of the AAC streams yet? They seem to survive even
very low bit rates. In particular I find the image is far steadier
than medium rate MP3.

AAC is far newer technology, and was designed for equal quality at half the
bitrate. I don't know that it is quite that good, but there are technical
reasons for it to be better, all other things being equal.


What AAC does very well is provide perfectly passable quality at
stupidly low bit rates.

d