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    Constant bitrate (CBR) encoding means that the rate at which a codec's output data should be consumed is constant. CBR is useful for streaming multimedia content on limited capacity channels since it ensures the maximum bit rate is used. However, CBR would not be optimal for storage as it may not allocate enough data for complex sections, degrading quality, or waste data on simple sections. While increasing the bitrate could solve the issue of not allocating enough data, the file size would also increase proportionally. Most coding schemes produce variable-length codes, making perfect CBR difficult without the use of padding.

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    Constant bitrate (CBR) encoding means that the rate at which a codec's output data should be consumed is constant. CBR is useful for streaming multimedia content on limited capacity channels since it ensures the maximum bit rate is used. However, CBR would not be optimal for storage as it may not allocate enough data for complex sections, degrading quality, or waste data on simple sections. While increasing the bitrate could solve the issue of not allocating enough data, the file size would also increase proportionally. Most coding schemes produce variable-length codes, making perfect CBR difficult without the use of padding.

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    Constant bitrate (CBR) encoding means that the rate at which a codec's output data should be consumed is constant. CBR is useful for streaming multimedia content on limited capacity channels since it ensures the maximum bit rate is used. However, CBR would not be optimal for storage as it may not allocate enough data for complex sections, degrading quality, or waste data on simple sections. While increasing the bitrate could solve the issue of not allocating enough data, the file size would also increase proportionally. Most coding schemes produce variable-length codes, making perfect CBR difficult without the use of padding.

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    Constant bitrate (CBR) encoding means that the rate at which a codec's output data should be consumed is constant. CBR is useful for streaming multimedia content on limited capacity channels since it ensures the maximum bit rate is used. However, CBR would not be optimal for storage as it may not allocate enough data for complex sections, degrading quality, or waste data on simple sections. While increasing the bitrate could solve the issue of not allocating enough data, the file size would also increase proportionally. Most coding schemes produce variable-length codes, making perfect CBR difficult without the use of padding.

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    Constant bitrate (CBR) is a term used in telecommunications, relating to the quality of service.

    Compare
    with variable bit rate.

    When referring to codecs, constant bit rate encoding means that the rate at which a codec's output data
    should be consumed is constant. CBR is useful for streaming multimedia content on limited capacity
    channels since it is the maximum bit rate that matters, not the average, so CBR would be used to take
    advantage of all of the capacity. CBR would not be the optimal choice for storage as it would not allocate
    enough data for complex sections (resulting in degraded quality) while wasting data on simple sections.

    The problem of not allocating enough data for complex sections could be solved by choosing a high bitrate
    (eg, 256 kbit/s or 320 kbit/s) to ensure that there will be enough bits for the entire encoding process, though
    the size of the file at the end would be proportionally larger.

    Most coding schemes such as Huffman coding or run-length encoding produce variable-length codes,
    making perfect CBR difficult to achieve. This is partly solved by varying the quantization (quality), and
    fully solved by the use of padding. (However, CBR is implied in a simple scheme like reducing all 16-bit
    audio samples to 8-bits.)

    [edit] See also

    • Bitrate
    • Average bit rate
    • Variable bit rate

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