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authorFabrice Bellard <[email protected]>2002-05-25 22:26:48 +0000
committerFabrice Bellard <[email protected]>2002-05-25 22:26:48 +0000
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@@ -27,20 +27,23 @@ Video:
vectors. Currently, only fcode = 1 is used for both H263/MPEG1. Half
pel vectors are used.
-I also plan to improve the bitrate control which is too simplistic.
-
Audio:
-----
-- I rewrote the mpeg audio layer 2 compatible encoder from scratch. It
- is one of the simplest encoder you can imagine (800 lines of C code
- !). It is also one of the fastest because of its simplicity. There
- are still some problems of overflow. A minimal psycho acoustic model
- could be added. Currently, stereo is supported, but not joint
- stereo.
+- The mpeg audio layer 2 compatible encoder was rewritten from
+ scratch. It is one of the simplest encoder you can imagine (800
+ lines of C code !). It is also one of the fastest because of its
+ simplicity. There are still some problems of overflow. A minimal
+ psycho acoustic model could be added. Currently, stereo is
+ supported, but not joint stereo.
-- I rewrote the AC3 audio encoder from scratch. It is fairly naive,
- but the result are quiet interesting at 64 kbit/s. It includes
- extensions for low sampling rates used in some Internet
+- The AC3 audio encoder was rewritten from scratch. It is fairly
+ naive, but the result are quiet interesting at 64 kbit/s. It
+ includes extensions for low sampling rates used in some Internet
formats. Differential and coupled stereo is not handled. Stereo
channels are simply handled as two mono channels.
+
+- The mpeg audio layer 3 decoder was rewritten from scratch. It uses
+ only integers and can be 16 bit precision for the synthesis filter
+ at the expense of a slight precision loss. A slower bit exact mode
+ is available too for compliance testing.