[FFmpeg-user] afreqshift

[Paul B Mahol]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 9:29 PM Michael Koch <astroelectronic at t-online.de>
wrote:

> Am 21.10.2020 um 21:02 schrieb Michael Koch:
> > Am 21.10.2020 um 20:36 schrieb Paul B Mahol:
> >> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 08:14:50PM +0200, Michael Koch wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm just testing the new afreqshift filter.
> >>> In my first test I did use only *.wav audio files. This test was
> >>> successful.
> >>>
> >>> In my next test I'm using MP4 files. First I make a test video with
> >>> a 5kHz
> >>> tone:
> >>> ffmpeg -f lavfi -i sine=f=5000:r=48000:d=5 -f lavfi -i color=black
> >>> -lavfi
> >>> showspectrum=legend=1 -y test.mp4
> >>>
> >>> Now I try to shift the frequency down by 4kHz:
> >>> ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -lavfi afreqshift=-4000,showspectrum=legend=1 -y
> >>> out.mp4
> >>>
> >>> The spectrum display is showing the expected 1kHz, but what I hear
> >>> is 5kHz.
> >>> What's wrong with my command line? Why is the output of the afreqshift
> >>> filter not mapped to the output file?
> >>>
> >> Something like this:
> >>
> >> ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -lavfi
> >> "asplit=2[a][b],[b]afreqshift=-4000,showspectrum=legend=1[b]" -map
> >> "[a]" -map "[b]" -y out.mp4
> >>
> >> You ignored fact that showspectrum is just A->V filter.
> >
> > That did also not work, the audio output is 5kHz. But thanks for
> > pointing me in the right direction. The asplit filter must be after
> > the afreqshift filter. This works:
> >
> > ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -lavfi
> > afreqshift=-4000,asplit[a][b];[b]showspectrum=legend=1 -map "[a]" -y
> > out.mp4
> >
>
> Would it be possible to add an option for deleting all frequencies which
> are smaller than the shift frequency, before shifting down? Because
> otherwise these freqencies are shifted into the negative frequency range
> and can still be heard.
> Example: An audio signal contains normal audio frequencies in the
> [0...12kHz] range and ultrasonic frequencies in the [12kHz...20kHz]
> range. If we want to hear these ultrasonic frequencies, we must shift by
> -12kHz. But then the [0...12kHz] range is shifted to the [-12kHz...0]
> range which means we can still hear it. That could be solved by an
> additional steep highpass filter before the afreqshift filter.
> Maybe it's easier to do that in the frequency domain in the afreqshift
> filter?
>

afreqshift does not operate in the frequency domain at all.
It uses two groups of allpass sections of biquad IIR filters to do most of
the work.
If you need big latency use afftfilt instead, you have a filtergraph for
that already.