Download Lame 3.98.4

The developers of ‘Lame Ain’t an MP3 Encoder’, called Lame for short, have released a new version in the stable branch with 3.98.4 as the version number. Lame is a cross-platform encoder that converts sound files to the MP3 format. The program is used in many music and media players for encoding music. There are several frontends that can control Lame via a graphical interface to, for example, rip the music on an audio CD. The list of changes for this release is as follows:

Version 3.98.4:

• Improvements for LAME DirectShow filter:
  • Added support for the DirectShow IAMStreamConfig Interface to the LAME encoder filter output pin.
  • Modified the DirectShow filter registration section so that the LAME Encoder filter is correctly registered in the Audio Compressors filter category. This will allow third-party encoding applications using the DirectShow System Device Enumerator Interface to correctly detect the LAME encoder when querying the Audio Compressors filter group.
  • Modified the filter registration information so that the MP3 audio subtype is correctly reported as being supported on the encoder output pin. This will allow third-party encoding applications using the DirectShow IFilterMapper2 Interface to recognize that the LAME encoder supports MP3 output.
  • Altered the Filter Merit Value that was being used when the filter was registered so that it is now using the standard DirectShow compressor filter merit value of MERIT_DO_NOT_USE (0x200000). Previously, the filter was being registered using a value of MERIT_SW_COMPRESSOR (0x100000), which was at a lower priority (ie worse priority) than MERIT_DO_NOT_USE. This prevented the LAME Encoder filter from being selected for use by some third-party encoding applications.
  • Added code to calculate the frame length of the audio frames used for the nBlockSize element of the WAVEFORMATEX output structure. Previously this value was simply hard-coded to 1.
• Fix for Bug tracker item [ 2973877 ] A problem regarding the new drain code