Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Masking in stereo

2000-03-30 Thread Shawn Riley
At 11:40 PM 3/29/00 -0700, Mark wrote: and this will disable mid/side encoding and force regular stereo encoding. For regular stereo, the L and R So the encoder would have a cow if it was using forced JS that happened? Is there a way to optimise the Joint Stereo encoding mode for surround

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Masking in stereo

2000-03-30 Thread Ross Levis
Shawn Riley wrote: So the encoder would have a cow if it was using forced JS that happened? Mark, can you mention if LAME can turn off joint-stereo when needed even when -mj is specified. Or does it force it on for all frames? Thanks, Ross. -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list (

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Masking in stereo

2000-03-30 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
Mark Taylor wrote: The conventional wisdom seems to be that surround sound systems sound bad with jstereo mp3's because the basically amplify the side channel. And a jstereo mp3 will usually allocate less bits to the side channel so it has more bits for (hopefully more important) the mid

Re: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Masking in stereo

2000-03-30 Thread Francois du Toit
Does the -ms option use half the bitrate for each channel or does it change from from frame to frame? - Original Message - From: Robert Hegemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 2:03 PM Subject: Re: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Masking in stereo Ross wrote

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Masking in stereo

2000-03-29 Thread Mark Taylor
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:05:30 From: Shawn Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had another look at the code, but not long enough to find where the masking is calculated. What happens, if, a person hears a sharp attack in one ear only... does it mask anything heard in the other ear? Does Lame take