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  One of my bitrates doesn’t work for WM MBR using Squeeze 4 on PC

  Posted by Madchadder on October 7, 2005 at 6:47 pm

  Our business needs to encode Windows Media Multiple Bit Rate files. We’ve had no problems doing this with Windows Media Batch Encoder, but we thought Squeeze 4 would help automate the process a little more. So far, that’s not the case:

  Whenever we ecode a MBR file with Squeeze 4 on PC, the high and medium settings play back fine from a media server. The low setting (modem speed), however, plays at about 0.2 frames per second instead of the 5 fps desired.

  I have no problem encoding a single bit rate file at modem speed. It only seems to have problems with MBR, which is what we need.

  Has anyone encountered this problem or a solution? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

  Madchadder replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Ben Waggoner

  October 21, 2005 at 5:18 pm

  Very weird.

  What versions of:
  Squeeze
  Windows Media Player
  Windows Media Services

  Are you testing with?

  My Book: https://www.benwaggoner.com/books.htm
  Squeeze and ProCoder tutorials: https://www.classondemand.net/benwaggoner/
  Compression Class at Stanford: https://www.digitalmediaacademy.org/compression.html
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  Madchadder

  January 26, 2006 at 6:52 pm

  Thanks for the response, and sorry I took so long to respond myself.

  I’m using:
  -Squeeze 4 (and I just tried again with 4.3, same results)
  -Windows Media Player 9 and 10, with “Choose Connection Speed” set to different settings to test the different bit rates.
  -Windows Media Services 9 Series

  I have no problem encoding an MBR file using Windows Media Encoder, but when I try to set up a similar profile in Squeeze, the lowest bitrate just runs like crap (0.2 fps according to WM statistics).

  If it helps, my profile is as follows:

  Windows Media MBR Custom Preset

  Audio: WM V9 Audio
  Audio1: 32 kbps, 16, 44100, mono
  Audio2: 32 kbps, 16, 44100, mono
  Audio3: 16 kbps, 16, 22050, mono

  Video: WM Video V9
  Video1: 650 kbps, 320×240, 29.97 fps, 120 frames, 4 sec
  Video2: 161 kbps, 320×240, 15 fps, 120 frames, 4 sec
  Video3: 17 kbps, 320×240, 5 fps, 50 frames, 4 sec

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