[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/3] ac3enc: shift coefficients to 24-bit following MDCT rather than using an exponent offset.

[madshi]

2011/3/8 Justin Ruggles <justin.ruggles at gmail.com>
> This makes channel coupling more accurate, increasing
> quality for stereo content.  It also simplifies exponent
> extraction and mantissa quantization by no longer needing
> to apply an offset to the exponents.

Maybe this is not the right place to ask, in that case
I apologize.

Justin, I thought you were the main force behind aften?
Now you're working on the ffmpeg AC3 encoder?
What does that mean for aften? Which encoder is
better now? Do you plan to drop aften once you're done
with improving the ffmpeg AC3 encoder?

Thanks, Mathias.