> Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> >
> > At high frequencies, humans only decide direction of the sound by the
> > relative left/right intensity, not by phase difference.
>
> So this idea seems like the intensity stereo. In this case, why not
> implementing intensity stereo?
>
No, it's totally different :-)
Intensity stereo == panned mono.
Side channel starving == leaving out side channel samples that convey no
useful information.
Totally different :-)
IS sounds horrible, is only useful at very low bitrates. But it would be
nice to have it implemented, of course.
Ciao,
Segher
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