The first and last word on the CBR vs VBR question.

May 14, 2014

Update - 4/9/24

CBR - Constant BitRate

VBR - Variable BitRate

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I like to say there are two ways to explain VBR vs CBR.  There is the non-tech way to explain it and that is simply:

VBR = Bad,  CBR = Good

And really that is all you need to know - some really smart people figured that out back in 2004...