LAME DirectShow Filter 3.99.5

This is a Microsoft DirectShow wrapper filter for LAME library. LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder. Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME originally stood for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. DirectShow is a much more advanced multimedia framework that allows several filters to be chained. In that fashion, one can easily create a chain that will read a wave file, pass its data through several sound processores, and at the other end write to disk directly to MP3.Today, LAME is considered the best MP3 encoder at mid-high bitrates and at VBR, mostly thanks to the dedicated work of its developers and the open source licensing model that allowed the project to tap into engineering resources from all around the world. Both quality and speed improvements are still happening, probably making LAME the only MP3 encoder still being actively developed.

LAME features:

- Many improvements in quality in speed over ISO reference software.
- MPEG 1, 2 and 2.5 layer III encoding.
- CBR (constant bitrate) and two types of variable bitrate, VBR and ABR.
- Encoding engine can be compiled as a shared library (Linux/UNIX), DLL , Directshow filter or ACM codec.
- Free format encoding and decoding.
- GPSYCHO: a GPL'd psycho acoustic and noise shaping model.
- Powerful and easy to use presets.
- Quality better than all other encoders at most bitrates.
- Fast! Encodes faster than real time on a PII 266 at highest quality mode.
- MP3x: a GTK/X-Window MP3 frame analyzer for both .mp3 and unencoded audio files.

Installing LAME DirectShow Filter:

- Download LAME DirectShow Filter
- Copy "lame.ax" in system32 folder [ C:WINDOWSsystem32 ]
- Run the batch file ("RegLAME_DS.bat")
- To uninstall just run the "UnRegLAME_DS.bat" file

LAME DirectShow Filter Screenshot

LAME DirectShow Filter Settings

Latest version: 3.99.5 (29 Feb 2012)
License: Freeware
System requirements: Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Download: lameDS-3.99.5.zip (133 KB)

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