The Underworldlive.com thread

[Jan]

It surprises me that noone seems to notice those ugly gaps between tracks caused by the inferior MP3 codec they use (itunes?).
The Blue Mountain gig is a good example for this. The track transition are completely screwed up. Switching to something better would also improve the perceived quality noticably.
I suggest the LAME codec, which proved to be the best MP3 codec available. (something like 'lame -V5 --vbr-new [input] [output]' would do what they want --> ~130 kbps). A mac version is available, too. With a gapless player like foobar2000 or winamp, there will be no gaps anymore!
For the Riverruns, they could reencode their material with '-V2 --vbr-new', which gives about 190-200 kbps on most material (it is VBR). People moaning about the quality of the Riverruns should be satisfied with that.

For videos, i recommend x264, which is considered to be the best video codec so far. In combination with the easy to use GUI MeGUI and the free Nero AAC encoder, this thing is better than everything else. 160x120 at 10 fps hurts my eyes! IMO 320x240 at 25 fps without much artifacts plus good sound quality should be easily possible.

Originally Posted by stimpee

but yes if they need someone to do this stuff for them then I do this kind of thing all the time and I volunteer my services i do seem to be the one noticing these anomalies...

Originally Posted by King of Snake

I'll happily do it for you, UW team

awww come on, you just want to snatch the lossless versions...