Avoid clipping due to quantization noise to produce audible
artifacts, by detecting near-clipping signals and both attenuating
them a little and encoding escape-encoded bands (usually the
loudest) rounding towards zero instead of nearest, which tends to
decrease overall energy and thus clipping.
Currently fate tests measure numerical error so this change makes
tests using asynth (which are near clipping) report higher error
not less, because of window attenuation. Yet, they sound better,
not worse (albeit subtle, other samples aren't subtle at all).
Only measuring psychoacoustically weighted error would make for
a representative test, so that will be left for a future patch.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
This is a small change, but it does have a big impact on bit allocation.
all the regressions marked in the report have no audible
difference (I didn't check them all though), but the improvements can
be heard.
This affects mostly high bit rates. It's related to issue #2686.
In the report, A is the patched version, B is unpatched, all
comparisons show deltas in the form (A-B), so a positive pSNR delta
means a better quality in the patched version, and negative a
regression. Regressions are only considered for pSNR deltas below
-1db, they're considered serious below -6db.
All measurements were done with tiny_psnr.
The summary of the report inline for quick reading:
Files: 58
Bitrates: 6
Tests: 347
Serious Regressions: 0 (0%)
Regressions: 10 (2%)
Improvements: 54 (15%)
Big improvements: 26 (7%)
Worst regression - sine_tester.flac - 384k
- StdDev: 1.68 pSNR: -3.05 maxdiff: -178.00
Best improvement - 07 - Bound.flac - 384k
- StdDev: -1700.05 pSNR: 20.64 maxdiff: -29595.00
Average - StdDev: -55.67 pSNR: 1.20 maxdiff: -1593.00
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
It is not correct in all cases and it is less predictable than a skip of 0
for user applications.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
There is a remaining error of 2 - 8 samples in some but not all cases,
the source of the error is unknown ATM.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
This makes only tests actually using avconv depend on it.
The remaining tests already depend on what they need.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
Add all seven test bitstreams of Coding Technologies "aacPlus Decoder
Check Package". The streams cover different ways to signal SBR and PS
in different formats.
This moves some groups of tests for single codecs to separate files,
and adds shorthands for running all tests in a group.
Originally committed as revision 24697 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk