How does CDQPrima help me to avoid problems with cascading?
CDQPrima gives you cascade protection in two important ways: 1) The higher the bit rate used, the less compression is performed and more compression cycles can be tolerated. For example, at 128 kb/s joint stereo, the limit is about two compression cycles before artifacts become audible. At 384 kb/s, the limit is raised to 15 compression cycles. CDQPrima supports bit rates up to 384 kb/s for MUSICAM enhanced Layer 2 and 320 kb/s for Layer 3. 2) MUSICAM enhanced Layer 2, at any bit rate, cascades better, with fewer artifacts than either unenhanced MPEG Layer 2 or Layer 3.
