[FFmpeg-soc] ac3enc merge

[Justin Ruggles]

On 12/11/2010 12:58 PM, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:

> Hi Justin,
> 
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Justin Ruggles
> <justin.ruggles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm going to go ahead and start merging some of the AC3 encoder changes
>> I've been working on in my git tree.
>>
>> For larger changes that might be controversial, I'll post patches on
>> ffmpeg-devel.  For example, the per-codec options for metadata and how
>> the floating-point/fixed-point split was handled.  Both of those could
>> be done in different ways; I just went with what I thought was the best
>> approach.  It would be good to get some input though before committing
>> them to SVN.  Plus there are some regression test and configure changes
>> in there that need review.
> 
> does it make sense (just for PR purposes) to have some quality tests
> (whatever you think is best to show how it improved) of the before vs.
> after, so we can "market" the improvements to the broader public?
> Either a blog post or an email to ffmpeg-devel should suffice.
> 
> It's a great way to show to the greater public how we're improving our encoders.


Sure. The only real quality improvement I've made so far is using the
floating-point MDCT.  I can make some nice graphs to show the increases
in PEAQ ODG.  But I'll need to submit those changes to ffmpeg-devel
anyway, so I can include the graphs there.

-Justin