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

[MP3 ENCODER] Various

2000-04-27 Thread Shawn Riley
I have a few questions ideas - potentially stupid, but they've been bugging me. I'd try all the ideas myself except I can't get Lame to compile I don't have a clue how to implement them anyway. 1- Is it possible to change the sample rate by encoding frames using other than 1152 samples? As an

RE: [MP3 ENCODER] Various

2000-04-27 Thread Mathew Hendry
From: Shawn Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 6- What's the difference between normal stereo dual channel In terms of bitstream format, nothing, apart from the frame header. Dual channel is simply a hint to the decoder that the two channels are intended to be played separately, rather than

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Various

2000-04-27 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
Mathew Hendry a écrit : From: Shawn Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 6- What's the difference between normal stereo dual channel In terms of bitstream format, nothing, apart from the frame header. Dual channel is simply a hint to the decoder that the two channels are intended to be

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Various

2000-04-27 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
Shawn Riley a écrit : 2- Are some people saying Layer2 is actually better than Layer3 at the same bitrates for some types of music? I wonder if quality could be improved by switching layers midstream... Do MPEG standards support that? I think that it's forbidden by iso Regards, -- Gabriel

RE: [MP3 ENCODER] Various

2000-04-27 Thread Mathew Hendry
From: Gabriel Bouvigne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] In dual channel, each channel has to got exactly half of the bits. Do you have a reference for that in the ISO/IEC docs? Throughout 11172-3 stereo and dual_channel seem to be treated as entirely equivalent. -- Mat. -- MP3 ENCODER mailing

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Various

2000-04-27 Thread Ross Levis
Mathew Hendry wrote: normal stereo allowing a more "free" allocation of bandwidth between the channels? AFAIK it doesn't. I'm not sure where that idea originated. I have been under the impression for several years that Stereo (mode 0) shares bits between the channels. If one channel was

RE: [MP3 ENCODER] Various

2000-04-27 Thread Mathew Hendry
From: Ross Levis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have been under the impression for several years that Stereo (mode 0) shares bits between the channels. If one channel was more complex than the other then it would allocated more to the channel that required it. I presume this is what

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Various

2000-04-27 Thread Ross Levis
Yes it is. The question is whether dual_channel is more restricted than that. Dual-channel is just what the name suggests. Each channel is completely independant. I don't see any advantage of using dual-channel. Ross. -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ )