Thank you for the explanation, Martijn!
On Dec 3, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Martijn van Beurden <mva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Op 03-12-14 om 18:14 schreef Brian Willoughby: >> I would like to point out that 'quiet' material is common when making >> original recordings. > > This is probably a misunderstanding: I said that the material that suffers is > usually quiet, not that all quiet material suffers. > >> I do a great deal of live recording, and the levels are always quiet in >> order to guard against clipping. These live recordings are then archived via >> FLAC to make sure nothing is lost. > > So do I, and I included a few unaltered samples with plenty of headroom in my > standard test corpus for these improvements. > >> but recent 'improvements' are sacrificing performance in one area to enhance >> performance in another area. > > That is certainly not the case. The compression level retuning doesn't work > beneficial for all material, but it is in this case simply coincidence that > it is some quiet material that seems to suffer. The patch attached to this > thread you're replying to however, for some reason benefits specifically this > kind of sounds. _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
