Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Normalize audio input

[Mark Taylor]

> 
> On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 03:32:39PM -0600, Mark Taylor wrote:
> [...]
> > > Or am I just too paranoid about normalizing to 16bit integer values?
> > > 
> > > -- Niklas
> > 
> > I also worry about this, but usually there are much bigger problems
> > to worry about :-)   
> > 
> > Right now, the resampling and the stereo->mono averaging in LAME is
> > done with short ints because the encoding routines want short int's
> 
> Is this stereo->mono averaging only for mono encoding, or does it also
> affect joint stereo?
> 
> -- Niklas
> --

just when converting stereo input to mono for encoding as mono.
The loss of precission is just +/- .5, so I'm sure it is well
below the ATH, so this falls under the paranoia catagory :-)

jstereo does the mid/side averaging with doubles.

Mark


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