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From my experience, "low quality" MP3s had little to do with limitations of the MP3 codec. They came about because whoever encoded them chose low bitrates, used
by gwbas1c 5y ago
From my experience, "low quality" MP3s had little to do with limitations of the MP3 codec. They came about because whoever encoded them chose low bitrates, used a bad encoder, or chose bad settings when making them. And, typically whoever was encoding an MP3 wasn't a trained professional.
In contrast, AC3 encoding was performed by professionals who understood what they were doing.
- astrange 5y agoHow does professionalism help if they don't have any choice in parameters? AC3 streams on DVD are constant bitrate and there's only one encoder, as far as I know. It's technically fairly similar to MP3, and mostly gets away with that by being used at higher bitrates.