On Feb 16, 2014, at 14:26 27, Dan Mills <[email protected]> wrote:

> Looks like I might be once again working in broadcast in the not too
> distant future (Mostly SDI video toys rather then audio this time), so
> I thought I had better re up, life happened as it so often does….

Hey Dan, welcome back!


> Fred, would you take a patch to make the normalization use the R.128
> loudness estimation method rather then the rather simple minded
> measure it uses at present, it should make for much more even loudness
> across cuts? The spec does not look hard to implement, but it would
> really benefit from the meter having a Loudness unit mode as well as
> VU.
> This would among other things make for much better leveling between
> compressed music and speech cuts.
> 
> I think I can cook up a measurement code that can be included in the
> source so removing the library dependencies issue.

It sounds good.  Does this mean that we’d wind up with compliant meters as 
well?  That’d be sweet.


> I figure an extra entry in the cuts table with the computed LU value,
> and probably a target level in the groups table so that different
> things can be trimmed to slightly different average loudness levels
> (Naughty, but someone is going to want to go there).

Is there a reason we shouldn’t keep the current normalization target scheme (a 
system-wide default, with the ability to override that on a one-off basis)?

Cheers!


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