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  1. Hi, I actually noticed this some time ago but never really knew where to report it until just recently, well here goes my explanation. When attempting to encode a VBR in Switch you must enter a "Quality" by which the file will be encoded. The additional information under "Quality" says: "(Higher quality = Larger file)", however in the drop down menu selecting 0, the lowest number there is, the value is shown as "0 (Highest)" while 9 is shown as the lowest, "9 (Lowest)". This has pretty much always confused the hell out of me because it's rather vital information that must be known before encoding and it's contradictory. I did a quick check over a few pages back looking for threads reporting this but didn't find any. Has this ever been reported before and are there any future plans to make the information more clear in future versions?
  2. Ok, the terms "STEREO" and "JOINT STEREO" in Mp3's for example, refer to how the channel volumes are recorded. It's a kind of difficult concept to explain but really all you need to know is that in Stereo audio there are two different channels being played at once, left and right and each of these channels will have different values as the sound levels fluctuate and the music is played. In "STEREO" recording, two completely seperate values are stored and played through the two different channels, basically like this: The "JOINT STEREO" is a much newer concept, however. It exploits the fact that a lot of the time, both channels have very similar signals and values being sent to them for playback and only records the difference from one channel as the values of the other channel. Joint Stereo signal values are recorded something like this: Except of course, it's much more complex than this, but this explanation was just to give you a basic idea of how the two methods differ. Because of the way joint stereo works, it requires less bits to produce a certain quality level than standard stereo does.
  3. Hey, Pozzo. As I think you've worked out by now, Mp3 is an audio only file format and is not video. Switch focuses only audio-only formats like Mp3 for conversion and therefore can't help you much if you want to convert video. If you wish to create VCD's that will play in your DVD player then you should get Nero 6 or 7 available for purchase here. Nero can also burn to DVD. In the case you don't wish to pay any money and just need a quick conversion then you should download the Ulead Video Studio 9 Trial available here. Ulead Video Studio 9 can be used to convert your AVI file to an MPEG which you can then burn onto a CD and play in your DVD player, if you really like it (like I do) I'd recommend buying the software outright so you can permanently convert your video files whenever you want.
  4. Unfortunately, Switch does not focus on the conversion of video files as yet. There is some software I can recommend that will do this for you, however. Ulead Video Studio 9 Plus the .3GP plugin for UVS9 will allow you to convert MPEG's to 3GP.
  5. NcH Studios WavePad, available to download here allows the cutting and pasting audio tracks together to form one large file that you can export as a Wave file and then encode into any format you wish with Switch. Simply open the first file you would like to append the rest of the tracks to and then open the second file and paste the second file after the first, repeat this process with each of the tracks you want to form one large file and then export your file then re-encode the output in Switch to whichever format you like. I know it might sound complicated, but it really isn't, if you need any more help just post back here again or check the help guide that comes with and you'll be good to go.
  6. Switch is not capable of this function alone however another one of NcH Studios applications does. WavePad, available for download here gives you the ability to cut any length of time from a track that you would like to and export it as a file that you can then convert with Switch into any format you like.
  7. A ".M3U" file is not actually an audio file or a codec, it merely contains a playlist of audio files that can be read by a media player, copying or moving "M3U" files won't copy the audio files listed within. You can actually see the list of files by opening the M3U in Notepad or by dragging and dropping it into a Notepad window. What you need to do is go back to your media player, load the M3U file there and then find the location/path of each file contained within and have Switch convert each of them or all of them in a list.
  8. I have been experiencing problems lately while attempting to convert files to ".ogg" in Switch. Every time I have this so far, Switch will attempt to decode the file (with Mp3's it will immediately fail and present the error below) however with ".m4a" files it will appear to work for a few seconds and then fail and present the error prompt below. I have attempted reinstalling the application and have tried to encode various other files to Ogg but they have all failed giving the same prompt. What seems particularly odd about this occuring is that Switch doesn't even appear to get to the point where it begins to encode to Ogg (or after my reinstall - re-attempt to download the Ogg Vorbis codec). The only thing I can think of as effecting Switch this way is that I recently did some registry cleaning, however I still doubt that would effect Switch in this way, any help would be greatly appreciated. I am using Windows XP. The decoding runs up until about this point. Here is a screenshot taken less than a second before the error prompt below appeared. This error appears whenever I try to convert to Ogg. I have been to the link it says to but have found no support for this problem, please help!
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