Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-10-01 Thread Mark Taylor
Hi Frank, > > 1. FFT filters are strictly speaking no filters (they are not a LTI system), >so they have some nasty properties, which are more or less audible. The >audibility depends on the steepness of the filter. So high passes should >never be made by FFT filters. Never ever. >

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-27 Thread Frank Klemm
Hi Mark, :: A couple of comments/questions: :: > :: > :: Also, every transition from two different size windows is lossy. The :: > :: MDCT is only lossless for overlapping windows of the same size. :: > :: :: > Is this a problem of bad designed (asymmetric) window functions or a :: >

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-25 Thread Mark Taylor
Hi Frank, A couple of comments/questiosn: > > :: Also, every transition from two different size windows is lossy. The > :: MDCT is only lossless for overlapping windows of the same size. > :: > Is this a problem of bad designed (asymmetric) window functions or a > problem of the MDCT (differ

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-25 Thread mythos
Frank Klemm wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 10:24:58AM -0600, Mark Taylor wrote: > > > > There is one thing I would like to do, but the work in LAME > > seems to never end :-) A variant on MP3 which > > uses everything from LAME, but with the following changes: > > > > I would not call it M

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-24 Thread mythos
Gabriel Bouvigne wrote: > > > how about altering some of the mp3 specs themselves and creating a > lame > > specific mp3 variant? > > are there any legal reasons not to do this? would the quality gain > be > > worth the effort? > The problem is that no player would them be able to play the files.

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-24 Thread Frank Klemm
:: :: > :: > > 1. go to transform sizes 1024 and 128 :: > > :: > MP3 uses 576 and 192. When 576 is too low for tonal music and 192 too long for :: > percussions, then this is right. But a 1:8 ratio can create other problems. :: > Note that MD uses 128, 256, 512 and 1024 sample blocks. ::

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-23 Thread Mark Taylor
> > > 1. go to transform sizes 1024 and 128 > > > MP3 uses 576 and 192. When 576 is too low for tonal music and 192 too long for > percussions, then this is right. But a 1:8 ratio can create other problems. > Note that MD uses 128, 256, 512 and 1024 sample blocks. > Useful are block sizes from

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-23 Thread Frank Klemm
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 10:24:58AM -0600, Mark Taylor wrote: > > There is one thing I would like to do, but the work in LAME > seems to never end :-) A variant on MP3 which > uses everything from LAME, but with the following changes: > I would not call it MP3. A distinguished name (MP4 or MPEG

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-23 Thread Mark Taylor
> > > how about altering some of the mp3 specs themselves and creating a lame > > specific mp3 variant? > > are there any legal reasons not to do this? would the quality gain be > > worth the effort? > > The problem is that no player would them be able to play the files. MP3 is > an internation

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-23 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
> how about altering some of the mp3 specs themselves and creating a lame> specific mp3 variant?> are there any legal reasons not to do this? would the quality gain be> worth the effort? The problem is that no player would them be able to play the files. MP3 is an internationnal standard, an

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-22 Thread mythos
sorry about the repeat messages but when I wrote them I was very tired and my brain was at half-power, an particular alterations I would like to see would be the ability to use larger than 320 kbps bitrates and vbr and abr (abr 320) I think i got everything this time, thanx for your time -- MP3 EN

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-22 Thread mythos
how about altering some of the mp3 specs themselves and creating a lame specific mp3 variant? are there any legal reasons not to do this? would the quality gain be worth the effort? -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ )

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-22 Thread mythos
Mark Taylor wrote: > > - An engine which would analyze the source data and find out which mode > > for -X would be best to use for compression (I have to admit though, that I > > am not too familiar with the -Xx settings - if someone could please explain > > these modes (or point me to a document

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-22 Thread Mark Taylor
> Hi, > > I got some suggestions for LAME. They're not too complicated (probably are > to implement, though), so here goes: > > - LAME VBR doesn't encode the LSB (Least Significant Bit) correctly (as > described on http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~djmrob/mp3decoders/lsb.html) - > what exactly is

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-22 Thread Robert Hegemann
Youri Pepplinkhuizen schrieb am Mit, 20 Sep 2000: > Hi, > > I got some suggestions for LAME. They're not too complicated (probably are > to implement, though), so here goes: > > - LAME VBR doesn't encode the LSB (Least Significant Bit) correctly (as > described on http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~

[MP3 ENCODER] Some suggestions for LAME - please review

2000-09-21 Thread Youri Pepplinkhuizen
Hi, I got some suggestions for LAME. They're not too complicated (probably are to implement, though), so here goes: - LAME VBR doesn't encode the LSB (Least Significant Bit) correctly (as described on http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~djmrob/mp3decoders/lsb.html) - what exactly is causing this and