nwa wrote:Did you try demuxing the audio and looking at the bitrate in foobar2000 or did you topen the file in vdub, if those report it being cbr as well, then it probably still is cbr.
I didn't demux it at all. When I was creqing one of the files, I noticed that the audio information said 192 CBR ... but as I was looking at it in AOM (which is erroneous at the moment) I saw that the audio bitrate wasn't a CBR bitrate. So that led to random curiosity. I then opened the file in various players ... VLC, MPlayer, TCPMP, Windows Media Player, Quicktime ... and all of them showed that the bitrate for audio varied as it was playing. Which to me was common sense ... if the bitrate isn't constant then it can't be CBR.
However, since avdump was basically the rule of thumb suggested by Der Idiot, I decided to drop my curiosity thinking "doesn't matter, if avdump is reporting this then that's what should be in the file info." I casted away my perception with CBR vs ABR & VBR ... thinking, "there just must be something I'm not getting about combined audio with video, maybe the audio file was CBR but with syncing with video, the rate is adjusted so the timing matches ... or the bitrate varies purely because the entire file's bitrate varies, and the CBR mp3 is still CBR, but it's the video combination which is VBR"
I dunno ... I guess I was just trying to rationalize going with avdump's reportings, lol. I'm not really a person who's into video which is why I was just guessing @ rationalizations, but MP3 audio is definitely my thing or has been for the past 5 years that I've been using Lame (since I rip my CDs myself with EAC, and had to learn the various modes and changes they made to it over the years).
Though I see now it might've been an issue with avdump. I'll make sure to demux it next time ... and make note of the file id, so that bug or error can be fixed.