> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:17:16
> From: Shawn Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> 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 sound systems? (I mean by allowing more bits into the
> 'side' channel) Or is that just a "Don't use JS" hint? heh heh
> heh...
>
> Shawn
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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 channel.
You could rig it so you allocate the same number of bits to both
channels, even in m/s encodings, but this is an on going debate I have
with Robert :-) In my opinion, this defeats the purpose of
mid/side encoding.
Mark
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