[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] RealAudio 14.4K encoder

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Sun May 30 22:53:52 CEST 2010


On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 07:52:54PM +0200, Francesco Lavra wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:01 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 07:48:23PM +0200, Francesco Lavra wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 02:53 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 08:52:30PM +0200, Francesco Lavra wrote:
> > > > > I'd say we should go for the fast gain qantization, and in attachment is
> > > > > an cleaned up patch for it, with code duplication removed.
> > > > 
> > > > the attached code looks like float brute
> > > 
> > > Yes, it is brute force, but it's the faster version: instead of
> > > LP-filtering the sum of the 3 codebook vectors for each gain
> > > quantization value, LP filtering is done only once for each of the 3
> > > vectors (in floating point) and the search is done with the sum of the
> > > filtered vectors.
> > 
> > yes and the variant that in addition tries the 5 best of that in integers
> > and correct rounding produced worse psnr for some files, thats impossible
> > correct rounding should always be better
> > so either iam missing something (very possible) or i misremember the scores
> > or theres a bug
> 
> While it seems strange, I think that's not impossible. Choosing a given
> gain value for a subframe affects the output of the next subframe too,
> and a choice based on integer calculations, while being the best for the
> current subframe, might not be the best "in the long run".
> >>From the PSNR values I reported, you can see that in some cases even the
> brute force approach (doing integer LP-filtering for all 256 gain
> values) gives worse results than the fast one; but in any case, the
> differences between the values are rather small.
> In case you are still skeptical on this, I attach the file with the
> variant that tries the 5 best values (sorted using quicksort), so if you
> want you can take a look at it and spot any (very unlikely :P) bugs.

if you say the code is correct then ill belive you :)

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