Hello all, The attached patch improves performance of sbcenc utility. This is not very useful in general and does not improve the SBC codec itself. But when using sbcenc utility for benchmarking, an extra unneeded overhead skews the results a bit and this might be worth fixing. Before patch: real 0m14.984s user 0m12.981s sys 0m1.924s After patch: real 0m12.279s user 0m11.865s sys 0m0.360s Christian, you fixed some bugs in sbcenc a bit earlier. Could you please also check if all your testcases also work fine with this new patch applied and it does not break anything? -- Best regards, Siarhei Siamashka