Re: [MP3 ENCODER] various questions (was: Some suggestions for LAME - please review)

2000-09-24 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
MP3 uses 576 and 192. When 576 is too low for tonal music and 192 too long for percussions, then this is right. But a 1:8 ratio can create other problems. Note that MD uses 128, 256, 512 and 1024 sample blocks. Useful are block sizes from 1 ms ... 35 ms. Minidisc also uses mixed windows.

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] various questions (was: Some suggestions for LAME - please review)

2000-09-24 Thread Frank Klemm
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:57:39AM +0200, Gabriel Bouvigne wrote: I've got another question about window sizes: are the short ones really essential in VBR? Would it be possible to only use long ones, and then allocating a lot more bits in the case of transcients? After all, Xing uses only

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] various questions (was: Some suggestions for LAME - please review)

2000-09-24 Thread Frank Klemm
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:57:39AM +0200, Gabriel Bouvigne wrote: Minidisc also uses mixed windows. Perhaps mixed windows would help in our case. I've got another question about window sizes: are the short ones really essential in VBR? Would it be possible to only use long ones, and then

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] various questions (was: Some suggestions for LAME - please review)

2000-09-24 Thread Robert Hegemann
Hi Gaby Why can we read in the litterature that humans got 25 CB but mp3 uses only 22? let us try to get it in order: bark scale is used by the spreading function Bark 0 : 0-100 Hz, Bark 24: 15.5 - 20.4 kHz masking is calculated for convolution bands

Re[2]: [MP3 ENCODER] various questions (was: Some suggestions for LAME - please review)

2000-09-24 Thread Dmitry
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Re: [MP3 ENCODER] various questions (was: Some suggestions for LAME - please review)

2000-09-24 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
Why can we read in the litterature that humans got 25 CB but mp3 uses only 22? let us try to get it in order: bark scale is used by the spreading function Bark 0 : 0-100 Hz, Bark 24: 15.5 - 20.4 kHz masking is calculated for convolution bands Lame uses 64 equidistant convolution

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] various questions (was: Some suggestions for LAME - please review)

2000-09-24 Thread menno
"Gabriel Bouvigne" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a scalefactor for 16kHz in AAC? (Meno, are you listening?) AAC has scalefactorbands that fill the whole frequency range, scalefactors are calculated for all scalefactorbands. Bye, Menno -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list (

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] various questions (was: Some suggestions for LAME - please review)

2000-09-24 Thread Robert Hegemann
Gabriel Bouvigne schrieb am Son, 24 Sep 2000: So the highest subbands don't have any scalefactor? I know that Brandebourg said that there is no proof that 16kHz really contribute to the hearing of the music, and then it could be intentionnal, but could it be a "bug" or mistake in the mp3

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] various questions (was: Some suggestions for LAME- please review)

2000-09-24 Thread Frank Klemm
:: :: So the highest subbands don't have any scalefactor? I know that :: Brandebourg said that there is no proof that 16kHz really contribute to :: the hearing of the music, and then it could be intentionnal, but could :: it be a "bug" or mistake in the mp3 specs? :: 40 Hz...16 kHz

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] various questions (was: Some suggestions for LAME - please review)

2000-09-24 Thread Mark Taylor
Hi Gaby Why can we read in the litterature that humans got 25 CB but mp3 uses only 22? let us try to get it in order: bark scale is used by the spreading function Bark 0 : 0-100 Hz, Bark 24: 15.5 - 20.4 kHz masking is calculated for convolution bands