On 22 Jul 1998, Jeff Lightfoot wrote: > Yann Guidon wrote: > >> I'm very interested in what ways our encoder is lower quality. > >> Cut off higher/lower freqs? > >i don't think, it may reside in the psychoacoustic analysis > >that has been "shortened" as to increas the encoding speed. > >but it is clearly claimed in the 8Hz homepage that this > >encoder is not as good as others. > > Seeing that I couldn't code my way out of a paper bag, anyone know if this > would be able to be a command line switch to increase quality? > > Or does the more extreme analysis not exist in the ISO sources therefore we > can't implement it? I think the main quality-loss is because the 8hz/dist10 source lacks the Joint_Stereo switch.. This means that the fraunhofer and other encoders with better quality gets more bits to use for the audio than an encoder that only supports stereo. I don't know how many bits you get extra when using the joint_Stereo, but maybe someone else knows? > -- > jeffml @ Jeff Lightfoot > pobox.com http://thefoots.com/ > /Jan (who got stucked in the mail-program.. :)
