[MP3 ENCODER] Voice encoding with low bit rates

2000-08-04 Thread engdev
I have briefly tried the "--voice" mode and the "normal" mode when encoding a purely voice signal (with background noise) at 8kbps, and have been very impressed with the difference. I would like to compress the signal more... but 8 is as low as it goes. The "nomal" mode renders the voice

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Re: 3.86a, bug with -h ?

2000-08-04 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
For my ears, Takehiro's scalefac_scale feature will not give better results. The quality of many tracks is a little bit lower. I have found no tracks with better quality. The file size is reduced, but for my opinion, the quality is more important. So i think, setting this feature as default

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Voice encoding with low bit rates

2000-08-04 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
I have briefly tried the "--voice" mode and the "normal" mode when encoding a purely voice signal (with background noise) at 8kbps, and have been very impressed with the difference. I would like to compress the signal more... but 8 is as low as it goes. The "nomal" mode renders the voice

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Re: 3.86a, bug with -h ?

2000-08-04 Thread Robert Hegemann
Hi Gaby! For my ears, Takehiro's scalefac_scale feature will not give better results. The quality of many tracks is a little bit lower. I have found no tracks with better quality. The file size is reduced, but for my opinion, the quality is more important. So i think, setting this

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Voice encoding with low bit rates

2000-08-04 Thread Robert Hegemann
I have briefly tried the "--voice" mode and the "normal" mode when encoding a purely voice signal (with background noise) at 8kbps, and have been very impressed with the difference. I would like to compress the signal more... but 8 is as low as it goes. The "nomal" mode renders the

[MP3 ENCODER] Voice encoding questions

2000-08-04 Thread alex . broadhead
Howdy All, In testing my (comparatively naive) hack of the dist10 encoder, I have discovered that, while it does OK for music, it has real problems with speech signals. (Caveat: at our lowest overall bitrate of 300kbps for combined video/audio, we run the audio at 32kbit mono - though we go

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Voice encoding questions

2000-08-04 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 4:14 PM Subject: [MP3 ENCODER] Voice encoding questions Howdy All, In testing my (comparatively naive) hack of the dist10 encoder, I have discovered that, while it does OK for music, it

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Voice encoding questions

2000-08-04 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
So my question(s) are: Is the solution to my problem to filter/downsample (and use joint, when I get around to coding it up)? That seems to be what is making the difference in the case of LAME; I assume that FhG is using some filtering as well, though there's no way to disable it and see

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Voice encoding questions

2000-08-04 Thread Mark Taylor
1) With my encoder (64kbps stereo CRC), every fricative is almost painful to listen to, as the pink noise bursts end up being narrow band filtered (due to lack of bits - only the MDCT coeffs closest to the pole are making it into the bitstream), and there are occasional weird high frequency

RE: [MP3 ENCODER] Voice encoding questions

2000-08-04 Thread alex . broadhead
Howdy All, Thanks for the quick replies! Gabriel Bouvigne wrote: If you want to encode voice signals, I'd suggest you to use --voice or --preset voice Actually, I want to encode general signals (mostly TV and movies), many of which have significant voice components, and, unfortunately, many

[MP3 ENCODER] HQ/LQ switches in lame_enc.dll

2000-08-04 Thread Wim
I've encoded some wavefiles with Exact Audio Copy and Audiograbber using Lame_enc.dll (3.85). I measured the time needed for encoding at 128 CBR (joint) stereo. The measured times for encoding at HQ were the same as for encoding at LQ. Furthermore, the measured times Exact Audio Copy needed

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Voice encoding questions

2000-08-04 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
I like to think that I have fixed at least a few. Now that I've finished a first pass clean, rewrite, overhaul, and verify, I'm taking a closer look at algorithmic (as opposed to purely implementational) problems, starting with the main loop, and probably ending with the #^@% psych model.

Re[2]: [MP3 ENCODER] Voice encoding questions

2000-08-04 Thread Roel VdB
Hello alex, abcc I feel guilty using a list mainly devoted to an open source codec (LAME) to abcc further the development of ClearBand's 'proprietary' codec. (Is a standards abcc based codec implementation proprietary? We don't sell the codec - we sell a abcc multicast system, mostly to ISPs

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] HQ/LQ switches in lame_enc.dll

2000-08-04 Thread David
Try doing a BINARY comparation to see - Original Message - From: "Wim" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 8:25 PM Subject: [MP3 ENCODER] HQ/LQ switches in lame_enc.dll I've encoded some wavefiles with Exact Audio Copy and Audiograbber using

Re: Re[2]: [MP3 ENCODER] Voice encoding questions

2000-08-04 Thread Frank Klemm
We should support an option (-ma for Mode Auto) which switches between -a -mm for highly correlated channels (r 0.98 = mono), -mj for a normal correlated signals (r = -1.00...-0.20, 0.20...0.91 = stereo) and -ms for nearly not correlated signals (dual channel audio with independent audio, i.e.

Re: Re[2]: [MP3 ENCODER] 3.86a, bug with -h ? [re-send]

2000-08-04 Thread Frank Klemm
:: -32000Hz files, filled with noise and :: "Lame -q1 -d -m j -V 2 -B 192 --lowpass 12.0 Hobbit.wav :: Hobbit-q1.mp3" :: and :: :: "Lame -h -d -v -q1 jo3.wav jo3q1.wav" :: :: |56 - 3 - 1,8% :: |||64 - 11 - 6,7% :: 80 - 52 - 31,7% :: ||

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] corrupt mp3 finder

2000-08-04 Thread Frank Klemm
:: I am looking for a program to check the integrity of mp3's. I know that Nero :Burning Rom does some sort of check on mp3's before burning them, but I haven't been :able to find a similar utility to check my MP3's without Nero. :: :: I thought someone out there should know something ::