Comment 26 for bug 195483

The weird thing is, when you check those vbr mp3s created with sound-juicer in VLC (Ctrl+i there the "statistics"-tab) the vbr-bitrate only varies around 10 kb/s or even less, up and down. Check at the "Input" box the values for "Input bitrate" and "Stream bitrate". This is technically VBR, but not the way VBR is intended. Imho, VBR does have a wide range of bitrate. So the VBR encoding remains somehow useless with sound juicer. I think this happens since gstreamer-0.10.

Maybe someone can write some kind of a hack, that filters the specific useless values that gstreamer passes to lame?