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] TagItem issues...

2000-09-24 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 23 Sep, Sigbjørn Skjæret wrote: Ok, after thinking about this for a while, and experimenting a little, I thought of a couple of issues with using TagItems to pass configuration settings in LAME... 1.) Floats and doubles will lose all it's precision (this can be simply avoided by

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-24 Thread Frank Klemm
:: :: ::1. go to transform sizes 1024 and 128 :: :: 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. ::

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] scalefac_scale patch

2000-09-24 Thread Takehiro Tominaga
"T" == Takehiro TOMINAGA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: T Sorry, that is my mistake. I commited it before complete T the patch. pls wait until tomorrow. I will commit better one. OOPS! All I was hunting for is not bug of scalefac_scale routine, but the bug of my compiler OK, I

[MP3 ENCODER] Simple ABX testing program

2000-09-24 Thread Frank Klemm
Currently I'm writing a little (Unix) program for making ABX double blind tests. Current functionality: * Able to load WAV/AIFF and MP1/2/3 files via lame * Files must be Stereo, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, up to 3 minutes long * No DC canceling to reduce fading noise between A, B and X * No

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
Hello Frank, Sunday, September 24, 2000, 7:43:06 PM, you wrote: FK How to capture Win95 Screen Shots? What utility would be the best? press 'print screen' button (copy) and paste into paintbrush... 8) Best regards, Dmitrymail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-24 Thread mythos
Gabriel Bouvigne wrote: how about altering some of the mp3 specs themselves and creating a lame specific mp3 variant? are there any legal reasons not to do this? would the quality gain be worth the effort? The problem is that no player would them be able to play the files. MP3 is an

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] TagItem issues...

2000-09-24 Thread Sigbjørn Skjæret
1.) Floats and doubles will lose all it's precision (this can be simply avoided by passing the string-pointer from arg-parsing and converting when parsing TagItems instead) What about passing the pointer to the float/double instead? Sure, but that means you will have to temporarily

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] post-encoding mp3 amplification

2000-09-24 Thread Frank Klemm
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 11:22:43AM -0600, Mark Taylor wrote: Is it theoretically possible to amplify the sound in a mp3 file without reencoding it? What would be the quality loss of this operation? Yes: modifying the global_gain field in each channel of each granule in a Layer

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

[MP3 ENCODER] Free format

2000-09-24 Thread Rob Leslie
Hi all, I now have free format working in my decoder, MAD. If anyone would like to try it -- get version 0.11.4b or later: ftp://ftp.mars.org/pub/mpeg/ So far it seems to work with any free format bitrate I've created with LAME, all the way up to 640 kbps. The real reason I'm writing,

[MP3 ENCODER] ALLOW_MIXED

2000-09-24 Thread Joshua Bahnsen
If defined, what does ALLOW_MIXED do? josh -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ )

[MP3 ENCODER] int64

2000-09-24 Thread Joshua Bahnsen
I'm not sure when, but recently (within the last 2 days) int64 is undefined for me compiling with DJGPP. I defined it in machine.h as a hack for me for now, but it doesn't compile "out of the box", well only when using MMX_choose_table. I can no longer use any optimzation higher than -O2, I never

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] ALLOW_MIXED

2000-09-24 Thread Robert Hegemann
Hi Joshua If defined, what does ALLOW_MIXED do? josh well, actually nothing, as mixed blocks are not supported by LAME. You may try Takehiro's snapshot, I think he has implemented mixed blocks in it. Ciao Robert -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list (

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] int64

2000-09-24 Thread Joshua Bahnsen
As a side note, I figured out the optimization problem, it was a faulty build of the binutils package I was using. Joshua Bahnsen - Original Message - From: "Joshua Bahnsen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 7:19 PM Subject: [MP3 ENCODER] int64

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] int64

2000-09-24 Thread Joshua Bahnsen
I'm using the configure generated Makefile that I've changed to suit my needs. - Original Message - From: "Robert Hegemann" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] int64 Hi Joshua I'm not sure when, but recently