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

1999-12-20 Thread John T. Larkin
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 02:19:29PM +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? >

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 les

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 10kH

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 bitrat

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

1999-12-16 Thread Robert Hegemann
David Balazic wrote: > From: Mark Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Just a note on the highpass filter: at 44.1khz sampling rate, > >we only have 576 MDCT coefficients on which the filter acts and thus > >a frequency resolution of only 22050/576 = 38Hz. So the accuracy of the first > >few coeffi

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

1999-12-16 Thread DAVID BALAZIC
From: Mark Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Just a note on the highpass filter: at 44.1khz sampling rate, >we only have 576 MDCT coefficients on which the filter acts and thus >a frequency resolution of only 22050/576 = 38Hz. So the accuracy of the first >few coefficients is questionable, and a hig

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

1999-12-16 Thread Monty
> > No practical filter, digital included, will have a cutoff that sharp. It > > *could*, but that causes all sorts of other problems (like serious ringing > > throughout the spectrum). > > Are there any rules of thumb for an appropriate frequency range that > the filter should act on? Depends

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

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

1999-12-15 Thread Monty
> 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 problem > this is, but a true 50Hz filter would need to be done before > ca

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

1999-12-15 Thread Mark Taylor
> > 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

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