Re: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options (and several questions)

1999-12-19 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
It's right that it's not a lot, but I think it's important. As an example, a standard 10 or 15Hz high pass filter would be nice, as no one is able to ear such frequencies, so why encoding them? A 10kHz filter, IMHO, would be a bad idea. Even in poor listening conditions with less than

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options (and several questions)

1999-12-17 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
What is the purpose of this high-pass filtering ? You said that it would affect only 2 MDCT coeficients, that is less than a percent of them all, so what gain do you/we expect from it ? In the tuning of the 44.1kHz voice option (I know that this option should be updated now for other

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options (and several questions)

1999-12-17 Thread John T. Larkin
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 08:06:26PM +0100, Gabriel Bouvigne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote ... It's right that it's not a lot, but I think it's important. As an example, a standard 10 or 15Hz high pass filter would be nice, as no one is able to ear such frequencies, so why encoding them? A 10kHz

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options (and several questions)

1999-12-16 Thread Mark Taylor
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:20:03 -0800 From: Monty [EMAIL PROTECTED] a frequency resolution of only 22050/576 = 38Hz. So the accuracy of the first few coefficients is questionable, and a highpass filter at 50Hz would only effect the first 2 MDCT coefficients. I dont know how big a

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options (and several questions)

1999-12-14 Thread John Hayward-Warburton
Robert Hegemann wrote: Thank you Ross for the info about radio frequencies. Coding FM quality with sharp cutoff would look like: lame --highpass 0.05 --highpass-width 0 ...etc May I make a case for --highpass 0.016 ? FM Radio usually goes down a bit lower than 50Hz. The lowest note on a

RE: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options

1999-12-14 Thread Ross Levis
John Hayward-Warburton wrote: It is true that some FM stations (in the UK at least) put filters in below 30Hz to allow in-band switching tones to be used between studios. Not that we use a filter here but I am aware that a lot of stations in the USA and elsewhere use a highpass filter which

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options

1999-12-14 Thread John Hayward-Warburton
Ross Levis wrote: What does the -X parameter do exactly? Only from looking at the code (and not understanding more than half of it...): It's all in quantize.c (look for references to `experimentalX'). It affects the output of function quant_compare(). John [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MP3

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options

1999-12-14 Thread Robert Hegemann
What does the -X parameter do exactly? When LAME searches for a "good" quantization, it has to compare the actual one with the best one found so far. The function quant_compare says which one is better, the best so far or the actual. Now the -X parameter selects between different approaches

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options

1999-12-14 Thread Greg Maxwell
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Robert Hegemann wrote: -X4 this is a bit complicated, I think Greg Maxwell should explain this ;) -X4 resulted from testing, overthinking and sleep deperivation. :) It's better if: The worst subband is less or equal to the masking while the previous best's

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options

1999-12-13 Thread Mark Taylor
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RE: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options

1999-12-13 Thread Ross Levis
Hi Robert. Hopefully someone else can help with the Win32 compile - please :) I think Marks suggestion of using a width option may be less confusing and easier to use. As far as radio is concerned, the 2 main presets would be something like this: 1. Music/commercials: FM50 - 15000

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] filter options

1999-12-13 Thread Robert Hegemann
Mark wrote: I would suggest changing to a more sox like settings, where you specify the lowpass frequency, and then a width or rolloff parameter. lowpass_l and lowpass_h seems a little confusing. What about: --lowpass --lowpass_width And then there could be a default width of about